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Two female divers have died after being pulled from a loch after a search and rescue operation.

Wildlife presenter and comedian Bill Oddie has died aged 85, with Chris Packham leading tributes and calling him an ‘utter joy’.

Five Palestine Action activists face being sentenced as terrorists for breaking windows and throwing red paint at a branch of Barclays Bank in Lancashire.

New footage has shown the exact moment a police boat on the River Thames crashes into Westminster Bridge.

More than 100 firefighters are tackling a large industrial unit fire in Essex - and an ambulance service has declared a critical incident.

The former boss of London City Lionesses is being forced to sell her London mansion in order to raise enough money to settle a divorce bill with her Bitcoin millionaire ex-husband, Court of Appeal judges ruled.

The wife of a Bangladeshi politician who died alongside her daughter as the pair tried to rescue another child in the sea at a holiday park has been named and pictured.

The number of police officers sacked each year from forces in England and Wales has hit a record high, figures show.

A Saudi prince found dead in his Kensington hotel room was almost three times over the drink-drive limit and had mixed alcohol with the party drug GHB, an inquest has heard.

Three pilots on board a British Airways flight suffered food poisoning while mid-air – almost exactly mirroring the plot of hit comedy, Airplane.

River Island founder Bernard Lewis OBE left a £40million fortune to his family, new documents show.

The captain decided to return ‘due to the danger it posed to the safety of the flight’, the air traffic controller said

A man whose mummified body was found in a river six years ago died from a ‘violent assault’, it has finally been determined.

Police have said a fire at a derelict building near an old hospital site in Dumfries is being treated as deliberate.

Babcock Land Defence, acting for the UK Ministry of Defence, has awarded BAE Systems a four-year, £4 million contract to supply components for artillery, howitzers and armoured vehicle weapon systems, including the 105mm Light Gun.

Aberdeen beach has been partially closed after a man-made sea barrier collapsed.

A man who was fined £1,000 for fly-tipping after leaving cardboard next to a recycling bin has vowed to fight on after having the penalty reduced.

A farmer died of a traumatic brain injury after the tractor he was driving crashed on his farm in rural Galloway, an inquiry has concluded.

Freddy Brazier has been savagely attacked by his Pocket Bully Pablo and rushed to hospital.

It was a sapling around the time King Henry VIII was writing love letters to Anne Boleyn.

More than two million people will be subject to a hosepipe ban as the lingering effects of recent heat waves persist.

A teenage girl who risked her life trying to save a 15-year-old boy from drowning has been given one of the UK’s highest awards for bravery.