The Met Office has issued a series of yellow warnings for heavy rain covering Monday and Tuesday. The first one is for central and southern parts of Northern Ireland, affecting areas including Enniskillen, Omagh and Newry. It begins at midday on Monday and continues until 6pm. The warnings for Monday. Pic: Met Office Image: The […]
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There’s a lot in the announcement, though none of the proposals are exactly new. There have been calls for merging our 43 local police forces into bigger regional constabularies for two decades at least, almost as long as I’ve been a crime reporter. The government argument – difficult to counter – is that it’s a
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Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has said there is a “strong case” for banning under-16s from social media. While the government does not yet have an official position on an Australian-style ban on children accessing the platforms, Ms Mahmood‘s intervention makes it more likely. However, as the minister responsible for policing, the home secretary rejected the
More than 810,000 homes are without power and thousands of flights have been cancelled as a huge winter storm hits the US, from the southern Rocky Mountains to New England. At least 180 million people in 37 states – more than half America’s population – are affected, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). Seventeen
Some 140,000 households are without power in the United States as a huge winter storm stretches from the southern Rocky Mountains in the west of the country to New England on the northeast coast. Heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain are threatening almost 180 million people – more than half the population – the National
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The road where Alex Pretti was killed by a federal immigration agent is known in Minneapolis as “Eat Street” because it’s lined with restaurants and cafes. A place where people usually come to enjoy themselves is now a focus for a community’s grief and anger. It’s cordoned off to traffic, and a steady stream of
Paris Hilton says the “pain and abuse” she faced as a teenager at so-called behaviour camps paved the way for her to find the “most meaningful work” of her life. In 2020, the hotel heiress released a documentary, This Is Paris, which detailed the treatment she and other victims endured at tough love camps in
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A total of 86 people have been arrested after a group of protesters supporting a Palestine Action-linked activist on hunger strike at Wormwood Scrubs breached the prison grounds, police have said. The group refused to leave the grounds when told to do so, allegedly blocking prison staff from entering and leaving, and threatening police officers,
The family of a 37-year-old US citizen shot dead by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis have lashed out at “sickening lies told about our son by the [Trump] administration”. Warning: Some readers may find the content in this article distressing Alex Pretti, an intensive care unit nurse, was sprayed with irritants before being shot
When Cameron Crawford saw the news that police had misidentified two teenagers after a fatal road accident, the memories came flooding back. The independent police watchdog is investigating how South Yorkshire Police mixed up the identities of 17-year-old Trevor Wynn and 18-year-old Joshua Johnson after a crash in Rotherham in December. For three weeks Trevor’s