Police Scotland Missing teenager Cole Cooper was last seen in Banknock on 7 May. Police are becoming “increasingly concerned” for a teenager who has been missing for three weeks. Cole Cooper, 19, was last seen at about 20:45 on 7 May in Longcroft, Falkirk, near his home village of Banknock. Ch Insp Alex Hatrick told...
Police have been given extra time to question a man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a car ploughed into football fans during Liverpool’s Premier League victory parade. Merseyside Police said a Ford Galaxy avoided a roadblock by tailgating an ambulance that was responding to reports of someone having suffered a heart attack. The...
Nathan Bevan BBC News, North East and Cumbria Police eventually used a stinger to stop Jack Lowrey during the 10mph pursuit A man who attempted to get away from police by driving at just 10mph has been handed an immediate 12 month prison sentence. Jack Lowrey was spotted driving erratically through parts of Cumbria on...
Police in Devon have told the public to expect heavy traffic and some road closures this weekend as a popular airshow returns to Paignton. Devon and Cornwall Police said it officers would carry out extra patrols during the English Riviera Airshow, which takes place between 30 May and 1 June. The force said people should...
Senior police and security leaders have raised concerns about the government’s proposals to release some prisoners early. In a letter to the Ministry of Justice, first reported by the Times, that was sent before the announcement on sentencing changes last week, they said that based on their understanding the plans “could be of net detriment...
David Cowan BBC Scotland Home Affairs Correspondent BBC Police lead away a man suspected of sexual communication with a 13-year-old girl It’s 07:35 in a smart suburban housing estate in central Scotland and the police are about to turn a family’s life upside down. Three detectives in plain clothes park their unmarked car near a...
Bodycam video shows the moment officers in Texas arrested Leo Tate and Jermaine Donald, two of the 10 inmates who escaped the Orleans Parish jail in Louisiana on 16 May. The two men were arrested after a high-speed chase that involved multiple law enforcement agencies. The escaped prisoners, several of whom are facing murder charges,...
Mark Gordon assaulted two female police officers on a maternity ward after the birth of his first child and had to be detained using leg restraints, a court has heard. Gordon, 50, and Constance Marten, 38, deny the manslaughter by gross negligence of daughter Victoria, their fifth child, whose body was found in a shopping...
After a driver ploughed into crowds during the Liverpool FC victory parade on Monday evening, Merseyside Police said within two hours they had arrested a “53-year-old white British man from the Liverpool area”. It was striking how quickly police shared the man’s nationality and ethnicity. The decision shows lessons have already been learned from the...
A man has been charged with attempted murder after a police officer was critically injured when he was struck by a car. PC Christopher Miller, 38, has been in hospital with life-threatening injuries since the incident on the B416 in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire on Thursday night. Thames Valley Police arrested two men, aged 28 and...
Anna Meisel BBC File on 4 Investigates BBC Nicola Packer was recently found not guilty of illegally taking a substance with the intent to miscarry A secret recording, leaked to the BBC, reveals a senior police officer had serious concerns over the controversial arrest of a woman who took abortion pills when about 26 weeks...
Sofia Ferreira Santos BBC News NTB/Jan Langhaugvia via Reuters The huge ship crashed into a local resident’s front garden on Thursday The watch officer of a huge container ship that ran aground and crashed into a garden in Norway has told police he was asleep at the time of the incident. Investigators said the man,...
Back in April, David told you the truly sad tale of one young British mother who’d become a victim of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s ‘Two Tier’ government. Distraught watching the riots unfold in the aftermath of the brutal slaughter in Southport of three young girls by a crazed, knife-wielding second-generation immigrant Rwandan teenager named Axel Rudukabana,...
Body camera footage captured by the Durango Police Department shows officers chase and catch Irwin the kangaroo. It’s not clear how Irwin escaped from his home in the southwestern Colorado town, but kangaroos are permitted to be kept as pets in the state. “We had an officer ask one of the deputies close by for...
Access to the social media platform X has been restricted in Tanzania after some official accounts of government and private institutions were targeted by hackers. On Tuesday, the official police account was compromised, with sexually explicit material and false information that the president had died being posted. The police dissociated itself from the information and...