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Five Wells governor to take over at scandal-hit HMP Parc in Bridgend, Wales

Dozens of Thorpe Park thrillseekers were stuck at the highest point on Britain’s ‘tallest and fastest’ ride

A 16-year-old boy has died after being injured by a falling tree in Nottinghamshire.

Horror footage showed black smoke billowing into the air after the boat blast that left two injured

The search for a sailor who went missing when a yacht overturned off the Queensland coast has ended in tragedy after his body was recovered.

Police have shot down a man armed with an axe nearby crowds of football fans at Euro 2024.

The horrific moment an escaped cow is rammed by a police car twice has caused outrage after being posted to social media.

Gen Sanders warned the world is more dangerous as ’trends for conflict are converging’

A video circulating on social media shows the police vehicle ramming into the cow and sending it skidding down the road - before approaching the animal for a second time and appearing to trap its head.

People living near a chemical plant have been told by police to keep their windows and doors shut after a chemical incident.

German prosecutors have dropped their investigation into real estate deals by Ajmal Rahmani, a former Afghan politician who says the decision strengthens his lawsuit against the U.S. government, which sanctioned him for alleged corruption.

Greencore, which supplies Asda and Sainsbury’s, is one of several firms seeking return of items over feared link

Undercover officers in the US recorded lectures by radical preacher Anjem Choudary which show he was the director of a group banned under UK terror laws, a court has heard.

A former police officer has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for conspiring to pervert the course of justice in connection with a sectarian killing in 1997.

A Metropolitan Police officer has been fined £1,500 for assaulting a woman when he wrongfully arrested her for bus fare evasion in front of her young son.

Two of the five Scotland fans were seriously injured after their rental car was involved in head-on collision with a Mercedes moments after departing airport near Dusseldorf

A ‘suspicious device’ was discovered at the offices of the Conservative Party in Horsham, West Sussex, with just weeks to the General Election.

The social media star snatched the iPhone out of a woman’s hand while she was texting. The court heard she was left "stressed, anxious and quite scared for my safety" by the incident.

The UK’s financial watchdog brought the charges against a total of nine defendants in a crackdown on "finfluencers" who use their online platforms to offer advice and information on various financial topics.

A British man has died after a group of 11 kayakers got into trouble in a southeastern French river.

Notorious gangster Daniel Gee escaped from Kirklevington Prison in Stockton on May 27, and Cleveland Police has now released CCTV images of a woman who appeared to meet him at a train station.

Norfolk Police confirmed last week that two companies are being prosecuted for corporate manslaughter