Thomas Mackintosh & Tom Symonds BBC News Greater Manchester Police Hashem Abedi left prison officers at HMP Frankland in hospital with serious injuries following an attack on Saturday A Manchester Arena bombing survivor has said he is angry, disgusted and broken after the bomber was able to attack three prison guards at a high-security unit...
CCTV is set to be upgraded at a play park in Bideford which had become a target for vandals. Two cameras will replace the existing one at the site in Victoria Park which received a £280,000 revamp from Torridge District Council in 2024. The new equipment was attacked six months after being installed when blue...
A 40-year-old man who identifies as a “queer scientist” has been charged with two separate acts of arson in New Mexico. One targeted a Tesla outlet and the other the GOP headquarters in Albuquerque. [Jamison] Wagner is a registered Democrat and supporter of a variety of left-wing causes, according to his social media postings. According...
Daniel De Simone Investigations correspondent Handout The families of (clockwise from top left) Liam Curry, Chloe Rutherford, Megan Hurley, Eilidh MacLeod and Kelly Brewster say the situation was “beyond comprehension” The families of five people murdered by Hashem Abedi in the Manchester Arena bombing have told the justice secretary of their “absolute disbelief” that he...
Give San Francisco this much credit: at least their latest art installation doesn’t prompt any confusion over what it depicts. We think, anyway. But we’ll get to that point shortly. These days, civic art installations usually take the form of modern-art monstrosities, especially sculpture. The most common reaction to these municipal art choices is inevitably,...
The government has suspended kitchen use in prison separation centres that are used to house a small number of the UK’s most dangerous and extremist inmates, it is understood. It comes after the Manchester Arena bomber Hashem Abedi attacked three prison officers on Saturday in HMP Frankland. Two male officers remain in hospital with serious...
A Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Sumy, which killed 34 people – including two children – and injured 117 others, has been strongly condemned by Kyiv’s Western allies. Two ballistic missiles struck the city centre mid-morning on Sunday, exploding near the state university and congress centre, leaving bloodied bodies scattered in the...
Getty Images Shapiro, a contender for vice-president during Kamala Harris’s 2024 White House run, held a news conference in front of the damaged home A 38-year-old man has been arrested and is due to be charged following an alleged arson attack on the official residence of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, authorities have said. Cody Balmer...
At least 34 people have been killed and 117 injured in a Russian attack on the city of Sumy, according to Ukrainian authorities. Two ballistic missiles struck the city, with the second causing the most casualties when it exploded over a street, officials said. Ukrainian authorities told the BBC that 20 buildings were damaged, including...
At least 32 people have been killed and 84 injured, including ten children, after a Russian attack on the centre of Sumy, according to Ukrainian authorities. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the “terrible strike by Russian ballistic missiles” hit an “ordinary city street, ordinary life” adding that, without strong pressure, “Russia will continue to drag...
Seven more people have appeared in court charged over an acid attack which left a man seriously injured. The victim was at home with his daughter in Lipson Road on 21 February, Plymouth Magistrates Court heard. Ria Park, prosecuting, said two men broke in and threw acid at him, “causing significant injuries to him”. The...
Emma Glasbey BBC News, Yorkshire BBC Gary Lewis was attacked in his shop in Northallerton in July 2024 A record shop owner who suffered a cardiac arrest after being stabbed with a syringe full of a power anaesthetic says he fears he may never know why he was attacked. Gary Lewis, 65, almost died when...
Nursery owners say they are “heartbroken and deflated” after a suspected arson attack at their building. Police have launched an investigation after the blaze at Bright Beams Day Nursery. in Plymouth, on Monday evening. The nursery on Billacombe Road, which was due to open in September, said emergency services had to “waste hours of their...
A 15-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl have been convicted of the manslaughter of 80-year-old Bhim Kohli, who was fatally attacked at a park in Leicestershire. Leicester Crown Court heard that during the “intense attack”, the boy racially abused Mr Kohli and slapped him in the face with a slider shoe while he was on his...
A man has been arrested in connection with a suspected arson attack in Plymouth. Devon and Cornwall Police said it was called by the fire service to an incident outside a property in Mutley Plain Lane at 04:30 BST. A small number of people were evacuated while the property was made safe and a cordon...