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Police artist impression of two thugs who battered elderly couple in savage machete robbery
Detectives described the robbery as a "truly horrifying attack"
Hero bin man died saving colleague from garbage truck
Paramedics battled to save dad-of-five 59-year-old Paul Abbott's life after he was hit by the truck on Tuesday morning.
UK cash machine ram raid epidemic now costs £150m a year
The UK saw 722 of the attacks in 2017 - an average of almost two a day
Brexiteer Priti Patel says UK should threaten Ireland with no deal Brexit food shortages
Disgraced former minister Priti Patel is in hot water again today – for gleefully suggesting that the threat of food shortages in a no deal Brexit could be used to encourage Ireland to drop their insistence on a backstop to prevent a hard border across Ireland. The former Tory Minister for International Development was reacting to a government report leaked to theTimes newspaper that outlined food shortages would be worse for Ireland than the UK in a no deal Brexit....
Thug caught on CCTV stabbing man in neck because he was “taking too long” in queue
Shocking footage captured the moment Jack Oldfield, 26, stabbed Robert Taylor, 30, in front of a police officer
Stephen Lawrence murder suspect Jamie Acourt behind bars for multi-million drugs operation
Acourt, 42, was extradition from Spain after being arrested as he left a gym in Barcelona in joint Spanish and British police operation
Busted on CCTV: carer stole cash from dementia patient and hid it in her bra
Thief Graziella Avetti was nailed when a secret camera caught her rummaging through a purse and bedside cabinet
O2 blackout: Data-reliant Brits leading “increasingly isolated” lives
O2 customers were left in a state of frenzy yesterday following a network blackout that saw them lose access to its 4G network. BBC presenter Dan Walker tweeted that he is "currently having to talk to people and look them in the face" after the outage, which he found "very disconcerting". The data glitch occurred after new research found face-to-face conversations are becoming a thing of the past as high-tech devices lead us to live 'isolated' lifestyles. A survey of...
45 years on, abused boys of Forde Park School horror finally receive apology
Over four decades after boys taught at a Home Office approved school taken over by Devon County Council were brutalised and abused in a horrific regime, the local authority that should have looked out for them as children has finally apologised. The apology was read out at the Independent Inquiry Into Child Sexual Abuse in England and Wales (IICSA) by the council’s legal representative. Last week, David Enright who represents many survivors of child sexual abuse in the inquiry chaired...