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Police have been blasted for parking a marked van on a narrow street for more than a hour - blocking the path of a fire engine. Coffee shop assistant Bruno Ferreira has accused cops of putting lives in danger by leaving the vehicle unmanned in the middle of the road for more than an hour. Officers claimed they had parked up and went in search of a suspected shoplifter when they abandoned the van in Wisbech, Cambs. But Bruno, 35,...

Stanley Chase, 72, used a plant nursery where he was listed as an active director and secretary as a cover for a cannabis factory

Police have released defiant mugshots of the Britain First leaders - because of the impact the vile pair had on the community. Paul Golding and deputy Jayda Fransen launched a 'campaign of abuse' against Muslims during a court case where a teen had been raped. The pair, from Penge, south east London, were jailed at Folkestone Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday for religiously-aggravated harassment. Fransen, 32, was sentenced to nine months in prison and Golding, 36, was jailed for four-and-a-half months....

This is the moment a Good Samaritan leaped into action to save a homeless person's TENT where he lives - after it was set on FIRE. The brave stranger can be seen calmly carrying the occupant's sleeping bag away from the burning tent, which was fortunately unoccupied at the time. The tent is one of several to have appeared recently in inner-city Riverside Park in Easton, Bristol, beside the M32 motorway. And the man, who asked to be known only...

More than 137,700 girls have missed school in the last year because they couldn’t afford sanitary products, a shocking new report into period poverty in Britain has revealed. The findings emerged in a report of 500 girls aged 10 to 18, which shows seven per cent have been forced to skip school during their ‘time of the month.’ Of these girls, the average has missed five days of school during the last year – which made them feel embarrassed and...

The world’s oldest known message in a bottle has been discovered on a beach, sadly it doesn't point to buried treasure. A couple found the 132-year-old bottle as they were walking along a beach near Wedge Island, Western Australia. One of the couple, Photographer Tonya Illman, said he said she picked up the bottle because she thought "it might look nice on display in my home". Inside the gin bottle was a note written in German and dated 12 June 1886....

Courtney Garrett, 38, and her husband Philip, 42, now have six little ones after years of fertility struggles which left them fearing they might never have children at all

A drugged-up teenage arsonist who firebombed a speed camera in a revenge attack after it caught his friend speeding has been fined. Michael Duncan, 19, was spotted by police in the early hours spraying petrol onto an already ablaze traffic enforcement camera on December 27 last year. Officers approached the yob to find he "smelt heavily of petrol" and when searched they found a plastic bottle containing the fluid and a lighter. A court heard Duncan had taken "ten rocks"...

A disgraced former detective who used the dating app Grindr to groom a 15-year-old boy has been found guilty of gross misconduct. Detective Constable Jonathan Davies-Brewin, 50, set up a profile with the display name 'Older4Youngerx' to contact the teenager online. He arranged to meet the boy in a Tesco car park, not knowing he had been snared by a paedophile hunter who was posing as a child. But when he arrived, Davies-Brewin was confronted by his own colleagues who...