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Karen Clough A large fire was seen spreading across Arthur’s Seat in August An Edinburgh road has been reopened following the Arthur’s Seat wildfire. The High Road had been closed to pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles for 10 weeks since the large blaze started on 10 August, during the Edinburgh Festival. …

A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life after a 75-year-old woman died in a house fire. Emergency services were called to Henllys Way in St Dials, Cwmbran, Torfaen, at about 20:40 BST on Saturday. Gwent Police said a 17-year-old boy remained in custody. …

A 71-year-old woman has been arrested after a car crashed into a shop in Ballymena leaving a man trapped, police have said. It happened at about 19:00 BST on Friday and significant damage was caused to the front of the store on the Grove Road, including a smashed window and …

Former British Olympic athletics coach Jose Vicente Leiva-Modahl has been charged with child sex offences, the Crown Prosecution Service has announced. Leiva-Modahl, 65 – the husband of former Olympic middle-distance runner Diane Modahl – will appear in court on Tuesday to face 19 separate charges including sexual assault of a …

Google The incident happened on Pleasance Avenue in Dumfries An eight-month-old baby and two toddlers, aged 14 months and 18 months, are in hospital after their pram was hit by a trailer in Dumfries. Police believe the trailer became detached from Mitsubishi Outlander on Pleasance Avenue at about 15:15 and …

Getty Images Detectives are appealing for information after a woman was seriously sexually assaulted and robbed by two men in Camelon, Falkirk. The incident happened between 20:00 and 20:40 on Sunday within a building on Main Street. The woman did not require medical treatment. One suspect is described as white, …

A 77 year-old woman has been charged over what police described as a “racially aggravated” attack. West Mercia Police said Carol Roberts, of Guildford Close, Worcester, has been charged with four counts of assault, one count of racially/religiously aggravated common assault, and one count of harassment without violence. It comes …

A man has been charged with raping a woman who was attacked in central London, the Met Police has said. A 19-year-old called the force at about 03:30 BST on Thursday to report that she had been raped on Euston Road in Camden. Officers attended the location, which was near …

Lanyon Place station in Belfast city centre has been evacuated after reports of a smell of gas. Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service confirmed that it has deployed crews to the scene. A spokeswoman said they were deployed following reports of a smell of gas at the station. She said …

Miranda Hart is interviewed about her recovery from fatigue on Woman’s Hour BBC News

A dog named Eeyore led a sheriff’s deputy to his owner’s 86-year-old mother after she fell while out on a walk. In new bodycam footage released by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office in Florida, a deputy is seen responding to a call from a husband concerned about his missing wife. …

A man has pleaded guilty to the murder of a woman who was found after a house fire in Dublin almost three years ago. George Turner, 55, from Fairview Avenue in the city, was arraigned before the Central Criminal Court on Monday. He will be sentenced on Friday. Emma McCrory, …

A woman has completed a challenge to run a 400-mile lap of Cornwall to honour her mother and raise awareness of Alzheimer’s. Elsey Davis, from Camelford, set off on Monday and completed her run, which started and finished at Land’s End, in six days, eight hours and 12 minutes. Ms …

A number of homes have been evacuated in Londonderry city centre due to concerns over an unsafe building, police have said. A photo posted on the PSNI’s Derry City and Strabane Facebook page shows a gap in a four-storey terraced building and a pile of bricks on the pavement below. …

Eimear FlanaganBBC News NI AFP via Getty Images Gardaí (Irish police) and other emergency services were called to the incident in Carrick-on-Suir on Saturday night A woman has been arrested following the death of a man in County Tipperary in the Republic of Ireland. Gardaí (Irish police) said the man …

Three men have pleaded not guilty to murder following a fatal acid attack on a man in his own home. Danny Cahalane, 38, was attacked on Lipson Road, Plymouth, on 21 February and died in hospital on 3 May. Brian Kalemba, 22, Abdul-Rasheed Adedoja, 22, and Ramarnee Bakjas, 23, all …

A woman who died after a two-vehicle crash in Glarryford, County Antrim on Sunday was 81-year-old Beatrice Higgins from Ballycastle. The crash happened on the Killigan Road at about 14:00 (BST) and officers attended the scene alongside other emergency services. Three other people were taken to hospital for treatment for …

Getty Images The woman was attacked in Luss Public Car Park, just yards from the banks of Loch Lomond Detectives investigating the rape of a woman in a car park near the banks of Loch Lomond want to trace a group she spoke to after the attack. Police said the …

Shazza Tiger-Smith Police and the fire service been carrying out a joint investigation into the fire in Gardenstown Police investigating a house fire in Aberdeenshire in which a woman died have said there are no suspicious circumstances. The blaze took hold of the property on Harbour Road in the Seatown …

A woman has died after being hit by a Tesco delivery van. The driver, aged 33, has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving after the crash on Garth Hill, Bangor, and remains in police custody. Emergency services including the air ambulance attended, but the pedestrian was …