This afternoon, a sizable fire has started in Gravesend (June 26). A serious incident in Jubilee Crescent has prompted nine fire engines to respond...
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Police were called at 1.48am on Saturday, 7 August to reports of an injured woman in High Street, Orpington.Officers attended and found a 23-year-old woman suffering from stab wounds. At the scene officers found a 56-year-old man had also been...
Two heartless thieves have taken a school minibus that has now depriving pupils to be able to go out on school trips. The thef happened yesterday (Thursday 5th August) at 3.53pm in the afternoon The Police have been informed and are currently...
It’s been reported that a number of police officers have been injured while responding to an incident in the Wood Green area of London. Officers were called to an incident on Noel Park Road in N22 at around 9pm following a 999 call made...
Laptops, speakers and smart watches were among hundreds of high value items stolen by Ionel Stoian during targeted raids in 2020. Stoian, aged 51, was part of a criminal gang which broke into branches in Kingstanding Way, Tunbridge Wells and...
The four agencies joined forces across Tuesday 3 August 2021 to carry out a series of patrols and stop checks across Gravesend and Dartford to combat the issue. The activity led to eight vehicles, many of which are suspected to have been...
Officers investigating county line activity in Herne Bay and Whitstable seized suspected class A drugs, a phone and cash during a warrant at a property in Bromley, south-east London on Thursday 5 August 2021. Aubrey Goodison-McIntosh has since...
It is reported that a member of staff was touched inappropriately over her clothing by a customer at a commercial premises off King Street. The incident happened at around 6pm on 5 July 2021, before the suspect made a purchase and then left the...
Police Dog Kaiser Returns For Duty! After being brutally stabbed in June PD Kaiser and his handler PC Woolcott were welcomed back by Chief Superintendent Dave Stringer who is responsible for Croydon, Sutton and Bromley. Kaiser and his handler ...
The Chandos Premier Guest House in Cheriton Road, Folkestone was made the subject of a two-month closure order at the town’s magistrates’ court on Friday 30 July 2021. Officers from the district’s Community Safety Unit...
Logan Mwangi, also known as Logan Williamson, was found in the River Ogmore in Aberkenfig on Saturday. John Cole, 39, has been charged with murder. He, Angharad Williamson, 30, and a boy, 13, are also charged with perverting the course of...
Police appealing for witnesses after a single-vehicle collision involving a South East Coast Ambulance vehicle and a pedestrian on Brighton Road in Redhill this morning (5 August). Officers attended alongside paramedics and the fire service at...
A father of a three-month-old girl who died from catastrophic injuries has been jailed for 13 years following her death. Anthony Miley, from Macclesfield, was found guilty of the manslaughter of Ivi Miley following a three-week trial at Chester...
The Crown Prosecution Service has authorised a charge of conspiracy to commit burglary with intent to steal against 32-year-old Ruth Lambert and 29-year-old Jessica Silvester, both of Gap Road, Margate. It follows an investigation by the Chief...
Natthapong Seedam, 31, a native of tambon Wichit in Muang district, informed local police after finding the body at about 1.30pm. Police found the body of a woman, about 164 centimetres tall, lying face down in the water among rocks about one...
It was reported that the criminal damage took place between 2pm and 7pm on Monday 2 August 2021, at St Mary’s Church in The Street, Great Chart. Roof tiles, as well as a church window were broken during the incident. Officers are also...
At around 9.30am on Monday 2 August 2021, a man is reported to have sexually assaulted a woman inside a High Street business before indecently exposing himself to a man and a woman, also in the High Street. The suspect is described as being black...
Mezbaha Uddin was arrested by the National Crime Agency in Dover after being found hiding in a lorry destined for France. The 39-year-old was under investigation by Nottinghamshire Police in relation to a number of incidents between September...
Some News just Breaking : John Cole, 39, from Sarn, Bridgend, has been charged with murder. Cole, Angharad Williamson, 30, also from Sarn, and a 13-year-old boy have been jointly charged with perverting the course of justice. All three are...
Police were called to Edmonton Green Bus Station at 6pm on Wednesday, 4 August following reports of an altercation. Officers attended and found two males in the vicinity, believed to be aged 16 and 19 who had been stabbed. The London Ambulance...
Kent Police is investigating reports of fraudulent adverts relating to sheds for sale in the district on local social media sites. Between 8 June and 9 July 2021 victims reported arranging to purchase a shed from an independent seller and...
Huge cash seizure and drugs seized by County Lines and Gangs Team in July A huge seizure of cash has been made by officers from the County Lines and Gangs Team who were conducting a warrant at a property in Hackney. The warrant was one of nine...
#A282 currently both #DartfordTunnels are held. This is due to traffic issues backing up from #J31. This is caused by the impact of the traffic being held on the #DartfordBridge due to the earlier vehicle fire. Updates to follow. There are...
Kent Police was called shortly before 7am on Wednesday 4 August 2021 after a cyclist sustained injuries in Borstall Hill, Whitstable. Officers attended the scene along with South East Coast Ambulance Service and a local 50-year-old man was...
Shane Myles targeted the victim in George Lane on 15 June 2021 before using a stolen bank card in a local shop. The 30-year-old was arrested following an investigation by Kent Police’s Chief Constable’s Crime Squad and identified...
An air ambulance was called out after two cars collided on Warden Bay Road, Isle of Sheppey, around 10pm last night. Unconfirmed report that an allegedly drunk driver hit a speed bump near the shops and his car ‘took off and crashed head-on into...
Police officers are recovering in hospital following a collision. The incident happened at around 4.pm on Tuesday, 3 August a marked police vehicle was involved in a collision with a car in Belmont Road, Erith.Officers attended along with London...
Police were called to Fenwick department store in Colchester High Street by Paramedics in the ambulance service around 11.30am on Tuesday 27 July, after a five-year-old boy sustained a serious head injury. Alongside store staff, customers and...
People need to be aware of this guy in London. He goes around the Brixton area dressed like this and claims to be a Paramedic and wear paramedic uniform and badges to support it. He works in McDonalds. He’s been challenged after getting his name...
Police officers are recovering in hospital following a collision. The incident happened at around 4.pm on Tuesday, 3 August a marked police vehicle was involved in a collision with a car in Belmont Road, Erith.Officers attended along with London...
Detectives are appealing for witnesses after a teenager was seriously injured in a stabbing in Haringey. Police were called at 2.17pm on Sunday, 1 August to reports of a stabbing in Lordship Recreation Ground. Officers attended along with paramedics...
Ian Baggs has now been sentenced to prison for his role in a scam which involved charging victims for bogus work to drains at their properties. The scam saw victims initially either contacted by telephone or at their doorsteps, amid claims the local...
A county line dealer has been jailed for four and a half years for supplying class A drugs in Canterbury. An investigation by Kent Police’s County Lines and Gangs Team identified Ta-Shan Thompson-Campbell as the holder of the ‘A1’ County Line which...
Colin Hinds had known the victim for more than 30 years and travelled nearly five miles to commit the assault following a disagreement in August 2020. The 38-year-old, of Manor Road, Queenborough, admitted grievous bodily harm and possessing...
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...
Between late January and mid-June 2021, we were called to a property in Brook Road on 23 separate occasions. The calls primarily related to members of the public being verbally abused and threatened by the occupant of the address, with reports of...
DVLA have said that they are experiencing delays with processing paper applications because of reduced staffing levels, due to a combination of Covid-19 and ongoing industrial action. As such, they’ve warned that paper applications, including...
Some venues and events are encouraged to require the NHS Covid Pass for entry – and it could become law at the end of September to require two doses of the vaccine. So what exactly is the pass and how can you get it? Here’s what you...
Last month saw the largest rise in the price of unleaded since January and means on average a litre now costs 135.13p – a price not seen since late September 2013 – up from 131.76p at the start of the month. Diesel meanwhile now costs on average 137...
A former local Mayor of Epsom Rob Foote, has been named locally as the marshal killed at Brands Hatch, whilst serving as a volunteer marshal at the famous motor racing circuit. The crash on Saturday 31st July at 3pm happened after a car spun off the...
Convicted Baby Killer James Dean Clark, 31, of Warmley, South Gloucestershire, denied being responsible for the death of Sean Clark but was convicted by a jury following a trial at Bristol Crown Court. Sean’s mother, Helen Jeremy, 27, of Kingswood...
The body of the youngster was found in the Ogmore River near Pandy Park in Bridgend after police were called to a report of a missing child in the early hours of Saturday morning. A 39-year-old man, a 30-year-old woman and a 13-year-old boy, all...
Safety is Sainsbury’s highest priority and retailers will encourage all customers to wear face coverings if they can Colleagues will be encouraged to wear face coverings and all Sainsbury’s leadership teams will continue to do the same when in...
A man who took a flying kick at a police officer during a protest in 2020 has been handed a suspended sentence following a Met investigation. Jonathan Daley, of Bradwell Avenue, Dagenham, RM10, appeared at the London Inner Crown Court on Thursday 29...
The flat in Union Street was reportedly entered on 25 July 2021, when items including car keys were stolen. Jason Higgins, aged 51, of Tonbridge Road, Maidstone, was arrested on the following day. He was later charged with burglary with intent to...
Shortly after midnight on Saturday 31 July 2021, the victim was walking on a footpath near Mace Lane behind the Henwood industrial estate when two men approached him. The victim, a man in his 40s, was asked for his belongings before he was pulled to...
At around 11.35pm on Friday 30 July 2021 Kent Police was called to a report that a teenage boy had been assaulted. It is understood that the victim had been walking through Five Step Alley when a group approached him and he was knocked to the floor...
Fires across Turkey have been raging since July 2021. Eight people were killed in the fires in Manavgat, Antalya Province, and the eighth victim died in Marmaris. Tourists evacuated from burning Med resorts as fires rage across southern Turkey. In...
At around 7.30pm on Sunday 1 August 2021, Kent Police attended a location near St Margaret’s Street, Rochester, where the body of a man was located. He was pronounced deceased at the scene. Formal identification has not yet taken place...
