Police investigating the attempted murder of two people in Bangor on 24 December have located the body of a man. Formal identification is yet to take place. A man aged in his 20s and a woman aged in her 50s both received serious injuries and have since been discharged following …
Read More »Two children injured in spate of dog attacks over Christmas
A two-year-old child has been bitten by an XL Bully in one of 15 incidents involving dogs causing injury or fear between Christmas Eve and Boxing Day, according to police. South Yorkshire Police said the child was bitten at about 11:00 GMT on Boxing Day in Sheffield, but provided no …
Read More »Woman dies in Boxing Day car crash near Downpatrick
A 73-year-old woman has died in a traffic collision in County Down. Angela Feenan, who was from Downpatrick, was pronounced dead at the scene of the incident, on Ardglass Road in the County Down town. She had been driving a black Seat Arona, which was involved in a collision with …
Read More »Murder charge after man found dead in property in Ipswich
A 38-year-old man has been charged with murder after a man was found dead at a property in Ipswich. Police were called at 11:37 GMT on Tuesday to reports that a man had died at the address in College Street. A man in his 30s was pronounced dead at the …
Read More »Passenger dies in hospital two days after driver killed in Fife crash
A second person has died in hospital following a two-car crash in Fife. The incident happened at around 23:10 on Friday on the B981, between Cluny and the Chapel junction roundabout. Police said a 48-year-old woman, who was driving a Volkswagen Polo, was pronounced dead at the scene. Three passengers …
Read More »Anti-abortion campaigner charged over Glasgow clinic protest
A woman has appeared in court charged with breaching abortion clinic buffer zone laws. Rose Docherty became the first person charged under the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Act after holding up a placard outside the facility in Glasgow in May, and again in September. Under the laws, introduced in …
Read More »Boys, 7 and 9, among five in hospital after Sherborne crash
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 …
Read More »British surfer rides potentially record-breaking monster wave
Laura Crane, a 30-year-old surfer from Devon, hopes she has made it into the record books after potentially riding the biggest wave ever surfed by a woman. Crane took on the wave at the Nazare Big Wave Challenge in Portugal on Saturday. The current world record sits at 73.5ft (22.4m) …
Read More »High Barnet’s World War Two codebreaker Ruth Bourne dies at 98
A World War Two codebreaker who worked at Bletchley Park as a Bombe machine operator and checker has died at the age of 98. Ruth Bourne, a Jewish veteran from High Barnet, north London, joined the Women’s Royal Naval Service at 18 before she was chosen to work at the …
Read More »Jewish Australians on why Bondi Beach is a ‘sanctuary’ for them
Two gunmen shot and killed 15 people at a Hanukkah event on Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday. The suburb has been a “sanctuary” for the community since the end of the Second World War, one Jewish Australian told the BBC. As mourners visited the area to pay their respects, one …
Read More »Police appeal after upskirting incident on Glasgow train
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 …
Read More »Death of woman in Dundee treated as murder
The death of a 54-year-old woman at a property in Dundee earlier this month is being treated as murder, police have confirmed. Lili Stojanova was found unresponsive at the property in Milnbank Road, in the city’s west end, at about 09:55 on 6 December and died at the scene a …
Read More »MI6 ‘operating in a space between peace and war’, new chief warns
The new chief of MI6, Blaise Metreweli has said Britain’s overseas spy agency is dealing with an “interlocking web of security challenges”, during her first public speech. Ms Metreweli, who took over as head of the Secret Intelligence Service in the autumn, is the first woman to head MI6, taking …
Read More »GAA footballer admits injuring woman in hit-and-run
A County Antrim gaelic footballer has admitted injuring a woman by careless driving and failing to remain at the scene of an accident. A woman in her 30s was hit by a van on the Glenravel Road in Martinstown on 26 October 2024. Kavan Keenan’s trial was due to start …
Read More »Pedestrian, 83, dies after being struck by van
Google The woman was walking on Christian Road in Broughty Ferry when she was struck by a van A woman has died after she was struck by a van in Dundee. Emergency service were called but the 83-year-old pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene in Broughty Ferry on Saturday …
Read More »Woman dies after fire at house
A woman has died following a fire at a house in west Belfast. Police received a report at 03:55 GMT on Saturday of an ongoing blaze at a property in Areema Drive, Dunmurry. The woman, aged in her 40s, was pronounced dead at the scene. A man in his 50s, …
Read More »Two people killed in house fires in Bangor and Belfast
Two people have died in house fires in Bangor and north Belfast on Friday. A man in his 20s was pronounced dead at the scene of a blaze at Queen Victoria Gardens in Belfast that was extinguished by firefighters at about 11:00 GMT. The second fire happened at Abbey Park …
Read More »Two people killed in house fires in Bangor and Belfast
Two people have died in house fires in Bangor and north Belfast on Friday. A man in his 20s was pronounced dead at the scene of a blaze at Queen Victoria Gardens in Belfast that was extinguished by firefighters at about 11:00 GMT. The second fire happened at Abbey Park …
Read More »Police say no crime established after rape claim
Google The incident was reported to have taken place in the Abbots Mill area Detectives investigating the reported rape of a woman in Kirkcaldy on Sunday say that no crime was committed. Police Scotland said officers had carried out “extensive” investigations, including looking at CCTV footage and door-to-door inquiries. The …
Read More »Man killed in crash was Francis Lynch, police say
Police have named a man who died after a single-vehicle crash in County Fermanagh as Francis Lynch. It happened on the Dernawilt Road in Lisnaskea just after 16:20 GMT on Thursday. The road, which was closed for some time, has reopened. Emergency services attended the scene but the 69-year-old driver, …
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