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The Suffolk Road in west Belfast is currently closed to traffic due to a security alert. Diversions are in place in Woodbourne Crescent, Derryveagh Drive, Stewartstown Road and Derryveagh Mews. The public should avoid the areas at this time. An update will provided in due course, police said. BBC News

A four-year-old girl was critically injured when she was hit by a firework on Bonfire Night, police have said. Lancashire Police said officers were called to Elm Street in Burnley on Wednesday following reports of fireworks being misused in the area. A force spokesperson said detectives had identified a suspect. …

A child and a man have reportedly been assaulted by another man at a sporting event Strabane, County Tyrone. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) received reports of assaults in the Ballycolman Estate area on Saturday afternoon. Sgt McDermott said the first report “stated that a child had been …

A 20-year-old man was stabbed at a fireworks display in Telford on Saturday night, police have said. West Mercia Police said officers were called to a playing field on Wellington Road, Donnington, at about 20:30 GMT. The injured man was taken to the Royal Stoke University Hospital, where he remains …

A 21-year-old cyclist has died in a suspected hit-and-run in West Sussex, police have said. The man, from Haslemere, Surrey, was found seriously injured lying in the road on the A286 at Easebourne at about 20:45 GMT on Friday. He was taken to hospital where he died on Saturday morning. …

Police have released the name of a woman who died after being hit by her own car at a doctor’s surgery. Andrea Sloan, 73, was killed in the car park of the Abbey Grange Medical Practice in Kirkstall, Leeds, shortly before 17:00 GMT on 29 October. A Kia Picanto, parked …

A woman has died after a crash between two BMW cars in Leeds. A 78-year-old woman died in the collision on Aberford Road, Woodlesford, at about 15:50 GMT on Friday. Police said they believed she may have had a “medical episode” at the wheel. The driver of the other vehicle …

Getty Images The collision happened on the Dunhill Road in Coleraine in the early hours of Saturday morning A man in his 20s has died after being hit by a car in Coleraine. It happened on the Dunhill Road in the County Londonderry town at about 01:20 GMT on Saturday. …

A teenager has been shot and is critically injured in an attack on a street. The 19-year-old was wounded in his back and leg in Manley Road, Huyton at about 20:50 GMT on Friday, Merseyside Police said. He was taken to hospital by emergency services, where he remains critically ill. …

Two men have been jailed for robbing a man of a £130,000 watch as he sat on a bench outside a church. The visitor to Oxford was the victim of a “calculated and organised” attack in broad daylight in May 2022, police previously said. Four men followed him to St …

A man has been charged as part of a police investigation into the theft of luggage from London Gatwick Airport. Kawtar Boudad Dupont, 31, said she was travelling with her two daughters, aged two and eight, on 30 October when she went into a baby changing room in the South …

Police Scotland Sam cropper died at the scene following the crash on the A7 A man killed in a crash between a lorry and a pick-up truck near Langholm in Dumfries and Galloway has been named by police. Pick-up driver Sam Cropper, 36, died at the scene of the incident …

Google The incident happened on Gauze Street in Paisley A boy was rushed to hospital after being stabbed on Bonfire Night in Paisley. The 13-year-old was seriously assaulted in the town’s Gauze Street area at about 20:55 on Wednesday. He was taken for treatment to the Royal Hospital for Children …

Three men have been charged with murder over the death of a child killer in a West Yorkshire prison. Kyle Bevan, 33, was found dead in his cell at HMP Wakefield on Wednesday. He had been jailed for life for murdering his partner’s two-year-old daughter Lola James in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, …

A karate champion who was jailed for sexually assaulting teenage boys has been cleared of all charges at a retrial. Andrew Sherry, 82, was convicted in March 2024 of indecently assaulting a boy under the age of 16 in the mid-1980s, and of four counts of sexual assault on an …

Police are investigating a report of criminal damage at the headquarters of the Alliance Party in Northern Ireland. The incident is being treated by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) as a “sectarian-motivated hate crime”. Graffiti was sprayed on a window, door shutters and a fence at the office …

A man has been charged with the murder of Jordan Webb in Portavogie, County Down. Mr Webb was found dead at an address in New Harbour Road in the village on Monday morning. Police officers attended along with the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service, but the 28-year-old victim was pronounced dead …

Getty Images The incident comes less than a month after the death of paedophile singer Ian Watkins at the high-security jail Police have opened an investigation after the death of a serving prisoner at HMP Wakefield. Officers were called to the high-security jail at 08:25 GMT on Wednesday following reports …

A 37-year-old man has been re-arrested and charged in connection with a rape and robbery in the Camelon area of Falkirk. Officers said two men gained access to a building on Main Street between 20:00 and 20:40 on 5 October and seriously sexually assaulted and robbed a woman. The man …

Footage showing the moment a member of the public tackled a man wielding a spade in Derby city centre has been released by police. Derbyshire Police said it was called to St Peter’s Street on 26 September to reports of a 38-year-old man carrying a spade. Jamie Birks, of Beaufort …