Officers investigating an incident in which a man threatened a member of rail staff with violence at Greenhithe station have released an image of...
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Police are appealing for witnesses after a woman reported to us that she was sexually assaulted in Portsmouth yesterday evening (Tuesday 10 July). At around 5pm the victim, a woman in her 50s, was walking her dogs near to the lake at Foxes Forest...
Detectives arrested a 30-year-old man from Dover on suspicion of assault on Sunday 8 August 2021. He has been released on bail pending further enquiries. Kent Police was called to the rear garden of a pub in Crabbe Avenue in River...
As part of Operation CeCe, a National Trading Standards initiative in partnership with HMRC. Kent Police Community Safety Unit and Maidstone Borough Council’s Community Protection Team supported the initiative across two days of action. Sniffer...
The team has continued with the removal of trees and creating fire breaks in key areas using hand tools and chainsaws, creating a positive effect in areas around village electrical power feeds. Chainsaw operations commenced to remove brush to...
The #A21 southbound #Lamberhurst Bypass there is a vehicle fire. The road is currently closed in both directions between the #A262 and #ScotneyCastle whilst firefighters from Kent Fire and Rescue and officers from Kent Police deal with the...
The livestock were found dead in Church Lane on the night of Sunday 8 and Monday 9 August 2021. Sergeant Darren Walshaw, from Kent Police’s Rural Task Force, said: ‘The two sheep concerned had been butchered by a person, or persons, with...
The water may also feel relatively warm on the surface, but just a few feet below can be icy cold – even in the hot weather – and can very quickly cause #coldwatershock. Young people often misjudge their swimming ability – they may view a river...
The lightweight armour is custom-made to better protect police dogs – both general purpose dogs and drugs dogs – and will give them protection against knives, bullets, spikes and impact from blunt objects. The armour was chosen after the...
It found he had sexually harassed 11 women, leading to mounting legal pressure and widespread calls for him to step down from fellow Democratic legislators and President Joe Biden. Cuomo, who had served since 2011 as governor of the fourth most...
Two fire engines were sent to the scene and crews arrived to a fire on the ground floor of the property. Firefighters used hose reel jets to extinguish the blaze, before clearing the building of smoke with a high pressure fan. The occupants were...
A BTP spokesperson said: “At 10.10pm on Tuesday 6 July, an intoxicated man boarded the train at Wembley station. During the journey, he approached a woman travelling alone on the carriage and sexually assaulted her. He then got off the train at...
Close to 50 charges have been issued by a single Kent Police team in the space of a month. The Chief Constable’s Crime Squad, which consists of detectives and uniformed officers who primarily investigate burglary and robbery offences, received...
The volunteer officers carried out stop checks in Dartford across the weekend of Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 August 2021 in order to remove uninsured, untaxed and defective vehicles from the roads, and to disrupt any criminal activities that...
The family of a five-year-old boy who tragically died after sustaining fatal injuries as a result of an incident in a high street shop in Colchester has paid tribute to him, saying: “He will be with us every single day throughout the rest of our...
The post-Brexit change means new and upgrading customers will have to pay up to £2 per day to use their monthly allowance of data, calls and texts. It will affect new Vodafone customers who join on or after August 11 and anyone who upgrades and...
Firefighters from Merseyside, Lancashire, South Wales, London and West Midlands fire and rescue services will fly to Athens this weekend. Once there they will join hundreds of other firefighters from France, Germany, Cyprus, Ukraine, Israel...
Officers from Surrey, Thames Valley, Hertfordshire, Essex, the Metropolitan Police were involved in the three-day initiative, known as ‘Operation Pandilla’. The operation used Automatic Number Plate Recognition technology and police intelligence to...
On 28th July 2019 at just before 8am I received a knock on our door, two police officers informed me that my darling son had been killed in a hit and run. At that second my life fell to pieces. The beautiful, loving, caring son I created and raised...
Two fire engines were in attendance, and crews used hydraulic rescue equipment to remove one of the car doors and free a woman from the vehicle. South East Coast Ambulance and Kent Police officers were also in attendance.
The operation, which took place on Saturday, 7 August, focused on disrupting county lines drug dealing and gang activity in Croydon, Sutton and Bromley. It involved more than 150 officers from units across the Met including the Roads and Transport...
An arrest has been made in connection with a knifepoint robbery where cash and Pokemon cards were stolen from a Folkestone shop. It was reported that a robbery took place at a shop in Sandgate Road on Tuesday 20 July 2021 where staff were shown a...
Police say Tower Bridge is currently closed to traffic and pedestrians due to technical failure. It had been opened to let the Jubilee Trust Tall Ship through before getting stuck There are reported long delays and drivers are being advised to seek...
Officers worked alongside Canterbury City Council, Kent Fire and Rescue Service (KFRS), The Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority and the charity Stop the Traffik on Thursday 29 and Friday 30 July 2021, which was World Day Against Trafficking in...
During the early hours of Wednesday 4 August 2021, a search warrant was executed at the home of Daniel Strange in Brionne Gardens, Tonbridge. A number of items were seized including a mobile phone and suspected drugs paraphernalia. Mr Strange, aged...
A weather warning has been issued for the many parts of South, London, Surrey and the Southeast. The yellow Met Office warning is in place from midday until 9pm today. The warning says: “There is a small chance that homes and businesses could...
Information is sought following a report a man was assaulted in Gravesend. The victim, who is in his 30s, has reported being punched in the face while he walked in Milton Road, close to the junction with Peacock Street, at around 3.25am on Sunday 1...
Mark Terry, 55, previously of Maidstone Road, Ashford, admitted using an online payment website to send women cash in exchange for videos of them sexually abusing girls. An investigation by the Paedophile Online Investigation Team revealed that...
Raheem was last seen in #Lewisham at his family home on 27th July. Believed to be wearing a black puffer jacket and black Nike Air Max’s with an orange tick on the Please call 101 if spotted and quote ref 21MIS022734.
Three volunteers are taking part in an indefinite hunger strike, organised by the British Gurkha Satyagraha United Struggle Committee, following a 13 day long relay hunger strike last month. Gurkha veterans who retired before 1997 are not...
Samantha Green, who is 45, has not been seen since 11.50pm on Saturday, 7 August 2021 and police are concerned for her welfare. Samantha is white, around 5ft 5ins tall, with brown straight hair and green eyes. When she was last seen she was wearing...
The charges follow an investigation into the sexual assault which reportedly took place in an alleyway in Ashford High Street during the early hours of Saturday 31 July 2021. We are still appealing for witnesses to come forward, in particular three...
Three fire engines and a Water Safety Unit were sent to the scene, and crews wearing dry suits used a throw line to access the casualties, before towing them to safety in a dinghy. They were then passed into the care of South East Coast Ambulance...
Arrests for theft, handling stolen goods and driving offences were made by officers from the Rural Task Force in July. In total nine people were arrested by the specialist officers who also seized 26 vehicles and issued 12 tickets for driving...
Kent Police was called at 6.46pm on Saturday 7 August 2021 to a report of an assault in Newington Road, Ramsgate. Officers attended and one person, a 15-year-old boy was taken to a local hospital with injuries to his leg consistent with a stab wound...
On Wednesday 4 August 2021 investigating officers arrested a 30-year-old man from Sittingbourne on suspicion of affray. He was additionally arrested for two counts of assaulting an emergency worker. A second man, aged 28 and from Gillingham, was...
A group of 143 PSP firefighters set off this morning heading to help Greece covered by the fire. Currently, she has entered the territory of Slovakia. Fires Continue to Ravage Greece Amid Europe’s Protracted Heat Wave Multiple countries are sending...
The couple choose to marry at St Michael’s church in Heckfield, Hampshire at 1pm today. Greeting the public and press as they arrived for photos, we are giving you a live feed as they leave the church for a new married future together...
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has confirmed the cancellation of tomorrow’s Royal London Cup match between Middlesex and Gloucestershire at Radlett due to a Covid-19 outbreak within the Gloucestershire squad. Members of the...
Police are appealing to the public for help in finding a man who is wanted in relation to an ongoing criminal investigation. Simeon Shaba, 19 is wanted in relation to an allegation of attempted murder which occurred in Dartford on Thursday 5th...
Police were called to Westminster Bridge at 7.52pm on Saturday, 7 August to reports of a man with a cut hand. Officers attended along with paramedics from London Ambulance Service. The man with the hand injury was treated at the scene before being...
The emails claim to be able to provide people with a “digital passport” that “proves you have been vaccinated against COVID-19”. These emails are fake, and the links within them lead to genuine-looking websites that steal your personal and financial...
British firefighters are deploying urgently – at the Home Secretary’s request – to help Greece as wildfires continue to devastate parts of that country. Teams from Merseyside, Lancashire, South Wales, London and West Midlands fire...
Kent Police’s County Lines and Gangs Team carried out a number of warrants on Thursday 5 August 2021 targeting those suspected of arranging for crack cocaine and heroin to be brought in from the capital and sold to vulnerable customers. A county...
Just before 9.40pm on Friday 6 August 2021, it is believed a grey Ford Fiesta was travelling along Minster Road when it collided head on with a white Jaguar XE. The driver of the Fiesta, a man in his 40s died at the scene. His next of...
Have you seen two missing teenage boys? Police say they have had reports they are in the Gillingham or Chatham area. Police are appealing for help to trace two missing teenage boys from Bedfordshire. Joshua, 14, was reported missing yesterday...
. Steven Skelton, 34, was arrested after officers carried out a search of his property in Canterbury Road, on 10 August 2020. Two mobile phones and an electronic tablet – all of which contained indecent material of children – were seized...
Naomi Claringbull was last seen at around 9pm yesterday evening, Saturday 7 August. Officers, and her family, are really concerned about her – we need to get in touch with her to make sure she’s ok.Naomi, 13, has brown hair which is cut...
A shop burglar has been jailed after stealing thousands of pounds of electrical goods from John Lewis stores in #TunbridgeWells and #Ashford. Laptops, speakers and smartwatches were among hundreds of high-value items stolen by Ionel Stoian during...
