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Fife Jammer Locations Thick smoke was seen emerging from Methil Harbour A number of heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) have been destroyed after a major blaze broke out at Methil Harbour in Fife. Emergency services were alerted at about 09:20 and seven fire crews were dispatched to the scene. It is …

Getty Images The car’s driver was pronounced dead at the scene. Police are appealing for information following a fatal crash on the B6397 near Kelso. The incident happened at around 19:40 on Saturday and involved a black Vauxhall Astra. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene. Officers said the …

Police have arrested 12 men on suspicion of immigration offences after reports of people in the back of a lorry. Officers were called to Edinburgh Way, Harlow at about 22:15 GMT on Friday where they found 11 men and a teenage boy in the vehicle. Essex Police said: “The men, …

BBC A coastguard helicopter is involved in the search A search is ongoing after an unoccupied creel boat washed ashore in Aberdeenshire. Police Scotland said the fishing vessel ran aground near Inverbervie Beach, at about 11:15 on Saturday. The force confirmed officers were working alongside a coastguard helicopter and a …

A caravan has been “completely destroyed” in an arson attack in a County Down village. The fire at a caravan park on the Ballywalter Road in Millisle was reported to police at about 02:00 GMT on Saturday. No one was injured in the blaze, and it was extinguished before it …

The trove of new files related to the late sex offender includes previously released footage of police searching his Palm Beach mansion. BBC News

Two boys, a woman and two men are in hospital following a two-vehicle crash in Dorset. The collision, involving a white Range Rover and a blue Renault Clio, happened on the A30 between Castle Town Way and Oborne Road just east of Sherborne on Thursday shortly before 21:15 GMT. Dorset …

An 85-year-old man who clung to a tree after becoming stuck in a fast-flowing river was rescued after police used a drone to find him. Thermal images revealed his location in the River Weaver, in Winsford, after Cheshire Police received reports he was in trouble on Tuesday afternoon. The information …

Sam FrancisPolitical reporter BBC All that was left of one Labour MP’s Christmas card A Metropolitan Police bomb disposal robot destroyed a box of Labour MPs’ unsent Christmas cards that had triggered a lockdown around Parliament. Roads around Parliament Square were blocked off by police at about 07.30 GMT on …

A former police officer has been arrested on suspicion of non-recent sexual offences. The arrest was made on Wednesday following an investigation from the Police Ombudsman. The Ombudsman said the offences had been committed while the man was on-duty and a serving police officer. These include misconduct in public office …

A 15-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of nine-year-old Aria Thorpe. Aria was found dead at a house in Lime Close, Weston-super-Mare, shortly after 18:00 GMT on Monday. A post-mortem examination found the preliminary cause of her death was a single stab wound, Avon and Somerset Police said. …

Naveed Akram, the surviving suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, has been charged with 59 offences, including 15 counts of murder and one of committing a terrorist act, according to the New South Wales Police. The other gunman, his father Sajid Akram, 50, was killed in …

PA Media Police said the incident happened in November A man has been charged over an alleged murder attempt in Aberdeen. A 42-year-old man was found seriously injured in the Skene Street area at about 10:40 on 26 November. He was taken to hospital for treatment. Police Scotland said a …

Getty Images The incident on a train as it was entering Glasgow Central station Detectives have launched an appeal after a man was seen filming up a woman’s skirt without her knowledge on a train to Glasgow. British Transport Police said the incident happened on the 13:27 train from Uddingston …

A road-crossing chicken has been reunited with its owner after police said they had “cracked” the case. The bird was handed in at the aptly named Eggborough Police Station on Saturday evening after it was “found playing chicken” in the road on Green Acres, a street in the village near …

A sinkhole has swallowed up the ground around a seafront car park. The void appeared over the weekend along the shorefront in Seascale, Cumbria. Parish councillor Zöe O’Hanlon said she believed it had been caused by a burst outflow pipe, and councillors had been at the scene with United Utilities, …

Google A 34-year-old man has charged in connection with the death of man in Edinburgh. Police were called to a property in Watson Crescent at about 06:10 on Saturday. The man, who was also 34, was pronounced dead at the scene. The arrested man is due to appear at Edinburgh …

A 15-year-old boy has been charged with murder following the death of a man in an alleyway near a pub in Surrey. Police were called to the scene near the Wheatsheaf pub, on Kingston Road, Ewell, at about 15:30 GMT on Tuesday where, they said, the victim, a man in …

Google The fire broke out in the town’s Lochnell Street A man has died following a fire at a flat in Lochgilphead in Argyll. Fire and police were called to an address in the town’s Lochnell Street at 07:45 on Sunday after a report of a property on fire. The …

Twelve people have been killed and at least 11 others, including two police officers, injured in a shooting at Bondi Beach on Sunday. Footage captured by an eyewitness shows a man grappling with an alleged gunman, before wrestling the weapon off him. In a press conference, the New South Wales …