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A major road has been closed after a serious incident involving a car and a cyclist. Avon and Somerset Police said the car left the scene of the crash, which happened on North Street in Bedminster, Bristol, at about 12:30 GMT. “One person has been arrested in connection with the …

Google Maps The body was found on a cycle path in North Lanarkshire Police are investigating the “unexplained” death of a 51-year-old man whose body was found on a cycle path in North Lanarkshire. Emergency services were called to a report of an unresponsive man near Centre Park Drive and …

BBC Four people have been killed and five injured in a road crash, police have said. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said two cars were involved in the crash, which happened at 00:45 GMT in Wigan Road, Bolton. This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published …

Police are investigating what they have described as a “serious sexual assault” in Plymouth. Devon and Cornwall Police said officers were called to the Mutley Plain area before 04:00 GMT on Saturday following reports of a woman having been assaulted. Officers said they attempting to locate a man described as …

A man in his 50s has been found dead after a tree fell onto a caravan during Storm Goretti, police have said. Devon and Cornwall Police said emergency services were called to the Mawgan area of Helston, Cornwall, at about 07:35 GMT on Thursday after the tree fell. Officers said …

Officers in Lewiston in the US state of New York rushed to rescue several cows trapped in a burning barn on 7 January, the local police department said. Three officers were responding to a report about the blaze, arrived at the scene, and were told about the trapped cows and …

A large fire has broken out at an industrial estate in Bangor, County Down. The Northern Ireland Fire Service (NIFRS) are at the scene of the fire at Balloo Industrial Estate. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has advised the public to avoid the Balloo Way, in Bangor. Residents …

BBC A cordon has been put in place in the area where the three injured men were found Police have launched an investigation after three men were found injured in the Hilton area of Inverness. The emergency services were called out to Balloan Road at about 08:25 and the men …

A body believed to be that of a Welsh man who was reported missing after calling his family on Christmas Day has been found in Malaysia. Mark Counsell, 31, from Pontypool, Torfaen, was travelling in south-east Asia but disappeared after calling his family to wish them a happy holiday. A …

The bodies of a man and a boy have been discovered at two separate homes in west Dublin. Emergency services were called to a property in the Cherry Orchard area of Ballyfermot at around 8.30am on Thursday. The man, in his 40s, was found dead at the scene. During follow-up …

BBC The car collided with scaffolding in Hanover Street A man whose car crashed into scaffolding in Edinburgh city centre has pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified. At Edinburgh Sheriff Court Durgesh Chaware had not guilty pleas accepted to two other charges of driving without insurance and driving without a …

Gardai (Irish police) are investigating after the bodies of a man and child were found at separate properties in west Dublin on Thursday. Gardaí and emergency services were called to a home in Cherry Orchard, Ballyfermot, Dublin 10 at around 08:30 local time on Thursday where a body of a …

The A74(M) motorway has been shut in both directions in southern Scotland following “multiple collisions” due to icy conditions. Emergency services have been called out to the scene between junction 14 at Crawford in South Lanarkshire and junction 16 for Johnstonebridge in Dumfries and Galloway. Police advised drivers to avoid …

A prisoner serving a sentence for attempted murder has absconded from a jail in Cheshire. Kieran Cameron was reported missing from HMP Thorn Cross, a Category D open prison in Warrington, at 20:20 GMT on Tuesday, police said. The 43-year-old is currently serving a 23-year-prison sentence for an attempted killing …

A woman in a car was shot and killed by a US immigration officer on a residential street in Minnesota. BBC News

Detectives are investigating whether the same gang attempted to steal ATMs from two supermarkets in Glasgow and Edinburgh. The incidents, which happened 100 minutes and 40 miles apart, both involved Nissan Navara pick-ups which were abandoned at the scenes. Police Scotland said the first attempted theft featured a white vehicle …

A busy road has been closed due to debris falling from a bridge in East Ayrshire. The A77 was shut in both directions, with emergency services attending the scene after concrete fell from an overbridge in Kilmarnock. Traffic Scotland posted on social media that motorists should attempt to find alternative …

BBC The lorry crashed into an industrial unit in Wingate Close on Wednesday A lorry became wedged after it left the road and smashed through a fence at an industrial estate in Nottingham. Nottinghamshire Police said it was called at 04:15 GMT on Wednesday after the lorry and its trailer …

A convicted murderer and another inmate who absconded from an open prison on New Year’s Day have been arrested. Matthew Armstrong, who was jailed for life for murder in 2009, and Daniel Washbourne, who has previous convictions for violence, both failed to return to HMP Leyhill in South Gloucestershire on …

There has been a suspected gas explosion at a house in east Belfast, police have said. The emergency services are currently at the scene on the Lower Braniel Road in east Belfast. Firefighters, ambulance staff and the police are involved in the operation. The road has been closed in both …