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Rise of the phone snatchers: Fightback against London's £50million theft crimewave as police seize more than 1,000 stolen mobiles and arrest 230 people in week - as hotspots revealed

06/02/25 00:21

The Met Police carried out the targeted operation as the force ramps up its bid to bring an end to the marauding phone thieves who prowl around the city on e-bikes and mopeds. The £50million-a-year crimewave has threatened to spiral out of control in recent years with crooks raking in the cash by selling the stolen devices on British soil or abroad. Now the force is using plain-clothed officers and phone-tracking data to gather intelligence and hunt down the smartphone snatchers plaguing our streets. An increase in patrols and operations have been carried out in hotspot areas, including the West End and Westminster, where the Met says nearly 40 per cent of phone thefts occur....read

Chelsea striker Sam Kerr tells court she called police officer 'stupid and white' after he treated her differently 'because the colour of my skin'
05/02/25 20:48
The Australia international captain made the comments when the cab driver took them to a police station after she vomited out of his window and argued about clean-up costs following a night out.
Chelsea striker Sam Kerr who 'racially abused police officer' tells court she 'feared for my life' as she and her partner were 'trapped' in back of a taxi before smashing window
05/02/25 14:21
The 31-year-old Australia international captain is on trial for racially aggravated abuse after calling Met Police constable Stephen Lovell 'f****** stupid and white' during a rant at a police station.
When the Met Police went on strike twice in 12 months... before the government made walkouts by officers illegal - as backroom staff leave their desks today
04/02/25 13:01
Back in the final months of the First World War in 1918 and again the following year officers in the Metropolitan Police went on strike in a dispute fuelled by complaints over pay.
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Met Police staff go on strike for first time ever as 300 walkout after 'being told to they would be docked pay for working from home'
04/02/25 08:52
More than 300 members of the force will walkout for two weeks - starting on Tuesday - after bosses gave them an ultimatum to reduce remote working or face pay cuts.
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Read the full transcript of Sam Kerr's shocking outburst at a police officer as Matildas star's video is played to her trial in London
03/02/25 20:09
The 31-year-old called a Metropolitan police officer 'stupid and white' after she had vomited in a taxi and smashed its window, a court heard on Monday.
Family man who died after falling down Waterloo Station escalator was NOT pushed but was 'a very sad and unfortunate accident', Met Police reveal
03/02/25 19:10
Ian Airlie was found dead at his home in Greenwich, south-east London , on October 10, nearly a month after the incident.
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Moment Chelsea striker Sam Kerr calls Met Police officer 'stupid and white' is shown in court after taxi driver accused her and her partner of refusing to pay when one of them was sick
03/02/25 17:23
Chelsea striker Sam Kerr called a Metropolitan Police officer 'stupid and white' during a dispute at a police station, a jury has been told.
Moment Colombian police arrest balding Irish man for 'offering 15-year-old schoolgirl £31 to sleep with him'
02/02/25 10:47
Cops released footage of the moment they held the 44-year-old from Dublin and escorted him to a police van in handcuffs wearing baggy jeans and a grey T-shirt.
Man, 32, is arrested after Nando's waitress is hit with a plate in 'unprovoked' attack as she serves chicken
02/02/25 00:09
A 32-year-old man has been arrested after Nando's waitress was hit in the face with a plate in an unprovoked assault.
Armed police car chase in Wimbledon sees wanted fugitive caught at last after going on the run across the country
01/02/25 18:55
Metropolitan Police officers pursued a stolen vehicle in Wimbledon after an alert by Cambridgeshire Constabulary. The vehicle was chased briefly before crashing in the south London borough.
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David Tennant mocked for 'looking like all three Top Gear presenters combined' as he transforms for scandalous new ITV drama
31/01/25 10:11
The former Doctor Who star, 53, will star in The Hack which is is a seven-part drama which tells the story of the phone hacking scandal that led to the closure of the UK's best-selling newspaper.
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Extra £100million to be pumped into neighbourhood policing as Starmer desperately tries to quell simmering unrest on Britain's streets
31/01/25 09:25
The figure matches an earlier investment announced in December for England and Wales to put 13,000 more police officers on the streets by 2029.
Schoolgirls, 14 and 15, missing after disappearing near King's Cross on London visit from Morocco
30/01/25 11:59
An urgent search has been launched for two schoolgirls who have gone missing in London while on a trip from Morocco.
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Pregnant woman and her baby were killed by unmarked police travelling at 80mph on a 40mph road just one week before her due date
30/01/25 07:29
Mariam Ahmed, 38, died after the unmarked police car smashed into her vehicle in south-east London causing her vehicle to flip several times.
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Anti-terror watchdog calls for special new policing unit to tackle 'lonely' and 'autistic' boys obsessed with violence like the Southport killer
29/01/25 01:50
Jonathan Hall KC has called for something similar to Scotland Yard's Fixated Threat Assessment Centre - which monitors risks to royals, politicians and other prominent figures.
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Black Met Police officer who called black colleagues 'cotton pickers' for not thinking force's public order unit is racist keeps her job after being found guilty of gross misconduct
28/01/25 16:47
Pc Mia Korell, who is part of the Roads and Transport policing command, was accused of using the term to describe black officers who did not believe the Territorial Support Group was racist.
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Families of two eight-year-old girls killed when Land Rover crashed into Wimbledon Prep school welcome 'pursuit of the truth' as Met re-arrest driver Claire Freemantle for 'causing death by dangerous driving'
28/01/25 13:40
Nuria Sajjad and Selena Lau died when a Land Rover Defender veered off the road smashing through a fence into the Study Prep School in Wimbledon as children were at an end-of-year tea party.
Met re-arrest driver of Land Rover that killed two eight-year-old girls after it ploughed into Wimbledon Prep School
28/01/25 09:58
Police have re-arrested the driver of the car that ploughed into Wimbledon Prep School in July 2023, killing two pupils.
How phone robbers are flashmobbing stores across the UK in seconds
28/01/25 07:30
Gathering in their masses, these masked gangs are bursting past helpless security guards and shoppers as they sweep up any device they can get their hands on.
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Met Police detective who led investigation into horrific rape case is accused of domestic abuse against seven former partners
28/01/25 01:35
A Met detective who appeared in a BBC documentary about a horrific rape investigation is facing a misconduct hearing over alleged domestic abuse against seven former partners.
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The 'steaming' flashmobs fuelling UK phone theft epidemic: How robbery gangs are ransacking stores to grab as many devices as possible before stolen handsets are sent to Africa or sold to second-hand phone shops
28/01/25 01:04
Gathering in their masses, these masked gangs are bursting past helpless security guards and shoppers as they sweep up any device they can get their hands on.
Pictured: Son, 30, accused of stabbing his 'highly respected' architect father to death at their family's £3.5million townhouse
27/01/25 12:16
Rory Talbot, 30, appeared at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court this morning to face a single charge of murder.
Keir Starmer accused of putting national security at risk after being 'pressured by Beijing' to develop Chinese 'super embassy'
26/01/25 02:07
While online hacking can be carried out from any location, tapping of fibre-cables relies physical access.
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My mum was murdered by 'Jack the Stripper' serial killer... he was never caught but I KNOW who he really was
25/01/25 09:42
Arguably one of the UK's biggest unsolved murder cases, Jack The Stripper killed eight women and dumped their bodies across the leafy suburbs of West London during a six-year murder spree.
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Met police officer found guilty of slapping 16-year-old boy ordered to pay back over £3,000
25/01/25 00:37
PC Sevda Gonen, 33, was found guilty of two counts of assault by beating after slapping the boy multiple times in the face and carrying out an unlawful search of him on November 14, 2023.
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Architect, 75, is named as the man stabbed to death in £3.5million Putney home - as man, 30, is arrested on suspicion of murder
24/01/25 21:10
Paramedics tried to save Mark Geoffrey Talbot, but the 75-year-old was pronounced dead in his £3.5million home in Putney, south-west London.
Man, 75, is stabbed to death at multi-million pound property in Putney - as man, 30, is arrested on suspicion of murder
24/01/25 17:10
Scotland Yard said officers were called on Friday at 3.36am to a property on Deodar Road, Putney, south-west London , following reports of a stabbing.
Eleven children are among 12 people charged over spate of Apple store robberies in London which saw gangs of hooded youths ransacking shops
23/01/25 02:06
The robberies are said to have taken place over the space of two-and-a-half weeks and charges include 24 charges for conspiracy to commit robbery and conspiracy to commit theft.
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Met detective who called Des O'Connor's daughter 'amazingly hot' while investigating her mugging faces second misconduct hearing after she wins four-year legal battle over decision not to sack him
22/01/25 16:50
Kristina O'Connor, 37, has waged a four-year campaign against the Met over comments made by then sergeant James Mason, 44, who sent her flirty emails while probing a violent robbery against her.
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Suspect who bludgeoned Citibank boss, 43, to death in her luxury riverside flat 'may have fled country'
22/01/25 08:34
Marianne Kilonzi, 43, was discovered by officers with a fatal head injury at her home in Woolwich, southeast London, on Friday afternoon.
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Met Police faces the first staff strike in its history as 300 staff who log crimes and vet officers will strike for two weeks in bitter row over WFH
21/01/25 21:32
Hundreds of police staff including 999 call handlers, PCSOs and child protection experts are refusing to come back into the office in an ongoing industrial dispute.
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Moment Met officer commandeers drug dealer's own bicycle to chase him down as he runs away from police
21/01/25 15:37
In body-cam footage, the suspect, Justice Oyedokun, 22, is seen being approached by the police officer before the man, seen wearing a black hoodie and a black Nike bag starts to flee.
He's an officer and a gentleman! Praise for VERY calm cop as he's harassed by YouTube 'auditor' who tries to make a complaint about being followed by security guard
19/01/25 12:36
The Metropolitan Police officer was approached by a man who claimed a security guard was following him as he attempted to conduct his 'private business'.
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Bumbling Met Police close investigation into protester carrying sign glorifying dead Hamas leader because they can't find her... despite TALKING to her during demonstration
19/01/25 07:26
The female protester was photographed being pulled aside by police after she was spotted carrying a piece of wood with the words 'Sinwar stick' written on one side and 'Spirit of Resistance' on the other .
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Man, 26, admits ploughing his car into the gates of Buckingham Palace causing more than £24,000 of damage
16/01/25 15:46
Johnny Scott, 26, of Dalewood Close, Hornchurch, admitted to causing over £24,000 of damage after ploughing his car into the gates of Buckingham Palace last March.
Moment cool-headed 999 operator sends police to help a domestic abuse victim after she pretended to call for a pizza delivery while being threatened
15/01/25 16:02
Quick-thinking call handler, Pippa Harvey, has been praised after a woman fearing for her safety was able to communicate with officers after dialling 999 'to order a pizza'.
Teenager, 18, is charged with murder after mother, 44, shot outside wake
15/01/25 11:50
Tahjin Sommersal, 18, has been charged with the murder of Michelle Sadio, 44, following a fatal shooting in Brent on 14 December.
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Now Britain's FBI is urged to probe wealth of anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq at the centre of bribery case
11/01/25 22:10
Scotland Yard has been urged to investigate the source of the funding for properties in London which are used by Treasury Minister Tulip Siddiq amid claims of embezzlement within her family
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Moment captured Albanian drugs lord exposed in Mail's 'Narcos' documentary for flooding UK with cocaine is flown home to face justice after 27 YEARS on the run
10/01/25 19:19
Dritan Rexhepi, nicknamed the 'King of Cocaine', had been on the run for over 27 years and was wanted in four countries.
Met Police rule pro-Palestine protest will not be allowed to gather near London synagogue as MPs and peers put pressure on force
10/01/25 00:27
The Met Police said it has 'no choice' but to use its powers to prevent the National Demonstration for Palestine from setting off just yards away from Central Synagogue in Fitzrovia, next Saturday.
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Twisted rap lyrics boasting about hunting schoolboy down and stabbing him to death on a double-decker bus are shared online - as Woolwich knifeman remains at large
09/01/25 23:46
They boast about hunting the schoolboy down and how he's 'now sitting' there stiff' after he was knifed to death on Tuesday in broad daylight on the number 472 London double-decker bus in Woolwich.
Thousands of Land Registry workers launch 'indefinite' industrial action over working just THREE days a week in the office
08/01/25 21:11
Thousands of civil servants yesterday launched 'indefinite' industrial action after being ordered to attend the office three days a week.
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Revealed: Teen rapper, 14, stabbed to death on Woolwich bus was due in court tomorrow accused of bringing machete into college
08/01/25 17:20
Aspiring drill rapper Kelyan Bokassa was said to have brought the weapon into Ravensbourne College in Greenwich on May 3 last year.
'Murdered' 14-year-old boy rapper's mother claims her 'polite' son was groomed by gangs and exposed to drugs at a young age before he was stabbed to death on a Woolwich bus
08/01/25 13:05
Kelyan Bokassa was stabbed in front of horrified passengers on a route 472 bus in Woolwich at around 2.30pm on Tuesday.
Fourteen year old boy rapper's fateful last Instagram post minutes before he was 'murdered' on Woolwich bus amid vicious gang war that saw 15-year-old 'killed with zombie knife' months earlier
08/01/25 11:11
The teenager, who today has been named as Kelyan Bokassa, was stabbed in front of horrified passengers on a route 472 bus in Woolwich at around 2.30pm on Tuesday.
City giant orders 110,000 workers back to the office at least four days a week
08/01/25 07:47
Staff at London-listed ad giant WPP, which owns agencies including Ogilvy and Wunderman Thompson, will now be expected to come into the office at least four days a week.
Schoolboy, 14, stabbed to death on London bus in Woolwich 'was an aspiring drill rapper': Manhunt continues for 'murderer'
08/01/25 02:01
The teenager, who has been named online only as 'Grippa', was stabbed in front of horrified passengers on a route 472 bus in Woolwich at around 2.30pm on Tuesday.
Manhunt launched for Woolwich 'murderer' after schoolboy, 14, stabbed to death on London double-decker bus: Police urging witnesses to come forward as horror unfolded in front of passengers
07/01/25 19:16
The boy was knifed today in front of horrified passengers on board a route 472 red double decker bus in Woolwich, in what has been described by Scotland Yard as a 'horrendous crime '.
Prince Andrew reported after 'using fake name' to register a company
07/01/25 07:43
The Duke of York, 64, used the pseudonym 'Andrew Inverness' when in 2002 he set up business Naples Gold Limited with sports retail tycoon Johan Eliasch.
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Prince Andrew reported to the POLICE after 'using fake name' amid saga around private investments company
07/01/25 02:45
The Duke of York, 64, used the pseudonym 'Andrew Inverness' when in 2002 he set up business Naples Gold Limited with sports retail tycoon Johan Eliasch.
Horrifying moment knife-wielding thugs brawl in packed shopping centre as shocked onlookers and security watch on
06/01/25 17:23
A chilling video shows a mass brawl break out in Westfield Stratford, a shopping centre in east London on Sunday. One thug is seen wielding a machete, another punches a man on the floor.
Police tell scared families who are being terrorised by drug-crazed gangs to play classical music to drive them away... but not too loud
06/01/25 01:55
Locals living in the upmarket London neighbourhood of St John's Wood have had their car windows smashed as drug gangs run riot.
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Met's anti-gangs squad cordons off Belsize Park after 'gunshots' were heard in leafy north London street where homes sell for £1.3million
04/01/25 19:57
Officer were called to Fitzjohn's Avenue at around 4pm over reports of guns being fired in the area. At this moment there have been no reported injuries.
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Revealed: Gangster father of Stephen Lawrence killer David Norris lives penniless in rundown 'bedsit' above a convenience shop as murderer son makes freedom bid
04/01/25 19:52
EXCLUSIVE: The ex-gangster father of Stephen Lawrence murderer David Norris lives penniless in a rundown flat in Kent and has refused to show remorse for his son's killing.
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Man in his 30s dies after falling from high-rise block of flats in east London
04/01/25 15:25
Emergency services were called to the complex on Gillender Street, Bromley By Bow, shortly after 2.20pm on Friday January 3.
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Revealed: Gun-obsessed murderer who shot dead Met custody sergeant Matt Ratana in police cell received £167,000 in legal aid
02/01/25 17:10
De Zoysa had an antique gun on him but officers who searched him before his arrival at the custody block in Croydon, south London, failed to find it.
Man, 40, is charged after pedestrian seriously injured when car 'swerved towards crowds watching New Year fireworks' on London's Primrose Hill
02/01/25 07:42
Daniel Sterling, 40, from Camden, London, was charged today with dangerous driving after a car swerved towards people watching the New Year fireworks.
Two men hurt - one seriously - and another arrested amid panic as car 'swerves towards crowds watching New Year fireworks' on London's Primrose Hill
01/01/25 01:07
Police were called to the junction of Primrose Hill Road and Regent's Park Road in north London at shortly after midnight following reports a car had crashed into a pedestrian.
I'm an ex-hostage negotiator - here's how you can use my tactics to get what you want
26/12/24 15:10
Scott Walker, from Birmingham , is one of the world's most experienced kidnap for ransom negotiators having helped resolve over 300 cases around the world.
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The Met departments facing cuts as police chiefs try to fill £450m black hole: How dog units, mounted branch and even the famous Flying Squad could be under threat
24/12/24 15:09
Outlining plans for a 'worst case scenario' to tackle the Met's budget deficit, Sir Mark warned an axe could be taken to a series of departments including its famous Flying Squad.
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Police issue 'terrorism' warning to British public after Germany Christmas market attack
22/12/24 12:50
At least five people have been killed and over 200 people injured after an SUV ploughed through a crowd of people at the packed market in Magdeburg on Friday.
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Police refused to find my stolen iPhone - so I did it MYSELF: Woman chased robbers for a MILE through London council estates to get her phone back... but that was just the beginning
21/12/24 13:28
EXCLUSIVE: Izzy Du, 26, pursued two e-bike riding thieves on foot after they grabbed her iPhone 15 Pro Max on Seven Sisters Road in Tottenham on the morning of December 17.
Female police officer accused of slapping in the face boy, 16, with mental health difficulties as she 'allowed her frustrations to get the better of her', court hears
19/12/24 23:28
Metropolitan Police constable Sevda Gonen, 33, slapped a 16-year-old boy with mental health difficulties multiple times in the face 'for his own safety' before transporting him to hospital, a court heard.
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Terror police chief says forces are 'relying on the public' for tip-offs as reports soar by half - and 'lone wolf' actors are now feared to pose more threat than organised gangs
19/12/24 22:26
Metropolitan Police deputy assistant commissioner Jon Savell said police are 'relying on the public' to spot suspected terror activity as 'lone wolf' actors now pose more of a threat than organised gangs.
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Three UK terror attacks were foiled at 'late stage' in last year, counter terror chief reveals as she issues warning over 'smouldering' threat level
19/12/24 10:57
Vicki Evans, senior co-ordinator for UK counter terrorism policing, said the two Islamist and one right-wing plots they had prevented would have led to mass casualties.
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3,500 police jobs may be cut as Rachel Reeves' tax grab threatens funding for cops
18/12/24 01:14
Tory analysis of Policing minister Dame Diana Johnson's £1billion boost for police forces faces a funding gap of £218million next year, equal to the cost of employing 3,500 officers.
Pictured: Mother, 46, who died after drive-by shooter opened fire at mourners outside church wake
16/12/24 08:04
Michelle Sadio was gunned down when a car pulled up outside a church in Brent, near Wembley Stadium, and opened fire on a crowd.
Gunman who opened fire at mourners outside church wake shooting dead mother in her 40s came 'with very deadly, evil intentions', says pastor
16/12/24 07:19
A gunman who opened fire at mourners in Harlesden outside a church wake who killed a mother did so with 'with very deadly, evil intentions', the local pastor has said after the horror incident on Saturday.
Moment car pulls up outside church before mother, 40, is killed in 'drive-by shooting while attending wake'
15/12/24 23:23
A chilling clip shows a black car turn into the road and stopping in front of the waiting crowd, before several gunshots are then heard during the incident in Brent, north west London on Saturday night.
Mother in her 40s shot dead 'in drive-by shooting while attending wake at church' as heartbroken friends pay tribute to 'brilliant' woman
15/12/24 18:50
The shooting happened in Brent, north-west London on Saturday night, leaving one woman dead and two men, both in their 30s, injured.
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Two trainee Met detectives who were caught performing sex act in police station lift after boozy night out at pub are found guilty of gross misconduct
13/12/24 19:15
Detective Constable Jessica Martin and Police Constable Pierce Lynch were discovered in the compromising position by two of their colleagues at Bethnal Green Police Station in November 2022.
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Buckingham Palace launch probe into 'unofficial' boozy Christmas party brawl at All Bar One after 'maid arrested'
13/12/24 10:52
Buckingham Palace is launching a probe into an 'unofficial' boozy Christmas party which ended in a brawl at an All Bar One after a palace maid was reportedly arrested.
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Armed police did nothing wrong when they rammed 13-year-old black boy off his bike after they mistook his water pistol for real gun, watchdog says
13/12/24 10:00
The investigation found that there was no evidence the child was treated differently due to his ethnicity during the incident in Buxted Road, Hackney, in July 2023.
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Buckingham Palace 'maid arrested' after staff Christmas party went royally wrong and turned into a boozy brawl where glasses were smashed and punches were thrown... at All Bar One
12/12/24 22:47
Royal staff were said to have gathered for drinks at the Palace on Tuesday night, with around 50 making their way to Victoria Street to carry on the festivities. But that's when things took a turn.
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Trainee detectives caught having sex in police station lift facing end of their careers
11/12/24 18:33
Jessica Martin was seen performing a sex act on Pierce Lynch at Bethnal Green police station in east London.
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Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley fears 2,300 police officer jobs could be lost due to £450 million funding 'black hole'
10/12/24 20:42
The head of Scotland Yard said the force will be 'scaling back our ability to tackle serious violence and organised crime ' under plans to axe 2,300 officers and 400 staff.
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Moment gas explosion sparks inferno at terraced house in Ilford: Two rushed to hospital after blast destroyed multiple homes on London street
10/12/24 18:29
Shocking footage shows the moment a terraced house goes up in flames in Ley Street in Ilford at around 4.10pm yesterday which left two people being rushed to hospital.
Rise of the Christmas parcel bandits: How brazen thieves are pinching YOUR presents from delivery vans in broad daylight
10/12/24 11:05
Gangsters are increasingly ambushing couriers as they attempt to post parcels, ransacking their vehicles before vanishing with thousands of pounds of goods.
Revealed: How Mohamed Al Fayed faked dementia to dodge sex abuse probe, says his son - as police investigate Harrods owner's 'enablers'
07/12/24 22:10
Mohamed Al Fayed evaded prosecution by tricking police into believing he had dementia, one of his sons reveals today.

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