All news by author: Ryan Merrifield
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Couple dive for cover as they're shot at in town centre - police seize weapon
A man and woman in their 20s were shot at with an air weapon as they walked in Tidworth, Wiltshire, on Tuesday
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Sobbing girl 'thought she was going to die' as kids jump out windows after crash
An unnamed pupil told a paramedic she thought she was going to die after escaping the bus crash which killed 15-year-old Jessica Baker and driver Stephen Shrimpton in Hooton on Friday
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British Airways orders staff to report colleagues after pilot snorts cocaine
British Airways pilot Mike Beaton was suspended after boasting in texts he'd snorted cocaine off a woman's bare breasts in South Africa before attempting to fly passengers back to the UK
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Police chief update on "parents worst nightmare" as girl, 15, killed in Croydon
The unnamed 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death on her way to school this morning in Croydon, with a boy, 17, quickly tracked down and arrested within 75 minutes
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Teen's heartbreaking notes while locked in end-of-life hospital battle
Sudiksha Thirumalesh, 19, had a rare degenerative disease and died from a cardiac arrest on September 12, during a legal battle with an NHS trust to keep her alive
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Every place 80mph blast to hit as danger to life warning issued from Storm Agnes
Storm Agnes is set to bring strong winds of up to 80mph and heavy rain despite the warmer than average temperatures for late September, with the Met Office issuing a series of warnings
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Halfords worker suffers stroke after attack by shoplifters then 'gets blamed'
Marty Scott, 57, was unable to continue working at Halfords following the assault at the Stockton, Co Durham, store but has been told he went against store policy by trying to stop the thieves
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Met Office warns of 'below freezing' temperatures before highs of 21C arrive
The Met Office has warned of a balmy turnaround in the temperatures of the weekend thanks to a 'tangle of weather fronts' seeing possible subzero overnight readings replaced with 21C on Sunday
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Reason Met police officer charged with murdering Chris Kaba cannot be named
Unarmed dad-to-be and rapper Chris Kaba, 24, was shot dead by a Met Police firearms officer through the windscreen of his car in September last year. The accused was granted anonymity by a judge today
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Met Office verdict on temperatures returning to 20C after Hurricane Nigel misery
Remnants of Hurricane Nigel are set to replace Hurricane Lee in bringing torrential rain and blustery winds to the UK in the coming days - but the Met Office predicts a possible uptick next week
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Mum, 3-year-old and newborn baby missing for two days sparking urgent search
Jamie-Leigh Kelly, 31, left a Family Assessment Centre in north-west London on Tuesday evening with her three-year-old daughter and newborn baby boy against the wishes of staff
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Heavy rain sparks horror floods across Britain with van stuck underwater
Wind and rain warnings have been put in place by the Met Office, with 60mph gusts and more than 165mm of rain in parts of the UK as the Environment Agency issues 15 flood alerts
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'Heavy and thundery' showers to blast UK as temperatures fall to single digits
The Met Office is forecasting heavy thundery showers on Thursday for parts of the UK with further flood warnings still in place with the remnants of Hurricane Nigel still to batter Britain
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Richard Osman sails into history books as new novel smashes sales records
Richard, who stepped down as co-host of the hit BBC quiz show in 2022 to focus on his career as a crime author, has sold 146,919 copies of The Last Devil to Die in just a week
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Aer Lingus flight unexpectedly forced to land in UK after passenger emergency
An Aer Lingus flight was forced to divert to Cardiff Airport after a passenger suffered a medical emergency, with the plane flying from Bilbao and heading for Dublin
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Sky down as tens of thousands of users report problems with their broadband
Sky broadband went down last night with thousands of frustrated users reporting issues across the UK to Down Detector and on social media - with one fuming 'sort your s*** service out'
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Exact date Hurricane Nigel will bring two months' of rain as misery continues
Hurricane Nigel will sweep across the UK later this week with up to 200mm of rain falling in a matter of hours amid fresh flood warnings after 10,000 lightning strikes recorded
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Met Office warns Hurricane Lee will bring torrential rain amid risk of floods
The Met Office says remnants of Hurricane Lee could bring 'heavy and persistent' showers to the UK with a yellow rain warning in place, while strong winds will pick up in England and Wales
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Flames and smoke billow out of block of flats in Kilburn with 'explosions' heard
London Fire Brigade tackled a major blaze in a high rise block of flats in Kilburn, North West London, with video and images showing flames and smoke billowing out
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Five Met Police officers deny misconduct over Bianca Williams stop-and-search
Athletes Bianca Williams and partner Ricardo Dos Santos were pulled over by police in their Mercedes along with their three-month-old baby in west London in July 2020
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Brit falls 300ft to death while climbing mountain popular with Instagrammers
The 42-year-old Brit fell off an 'aerial ladder' on the Dachstein Mountains near Salzburg in Austria last Tuesday, with police and helicopter crews scrambling to the scene
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'Upskirt' suspect, 20, charged with murder of mum killed while walking her dog
Police charged 20-year-old Harrison Lawrence-van Pooss with the murder of Claire Knights, 54, who disappeared while walking her dog around the Minnis Bay area of Birchington
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Sara Sharif's mum says arrests are 'weight off shoulders' as girl's dad returns
Sara Sharif's dad Urfan Sharif, 41, and his partner Beinash Batool, 29, fled the UK for Pakistan prior to the discovery of the 10-year-old girl's body in Woking, Surrey, last month
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Urgent iPhone warning as model pulled from shelves over unsafe radiation levels
The National Frequency Agency in France has ordered Apple to withdraw the iPhone 12 due to the high levels of electromagnetic radiation it emits and "rapidly fix" the issue
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Heathrow evacuated over 'security alert' with planes held up and station closed
Heathrow Terminal 4 has been evacuated amid a 'security alert' with armed police reported at the scene and flights being delayed and the nearby station closed
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