Police waging war on knife thugs in Dumfries and Galloway

direct to your inboxLast year, a local lad from Lowton had a long-term election strategy for Leigh as he campaigned to be the first Tory MP in the town.The Conservative councillor's realistic targets included narrowing Labour's margin of victory, holding the MP's feet to the fire, forcing her to vote for Boris's Brexit deal; all aims to set the groundwork in place so that in 10 or 20 years' time a 'young go-getting' Conservative candidate could finally win.But at around 2am on election night, candidates were shown the provisional results – and the Conservative Party's James Grundy was around 2,000 votes ahead of Labour's Jo Platt."And then they double checked it, came back to us and I knew with a majority of 2,000 there wasn't going to be a

The Stand arrived in bookstores in 1978, few reviewers hailed it as a modern classic. A widely circulated Associated Press review predicted it might "merely make some readers sleep," rather than prompt them to sleep with the lights on.

MORE NEWS FROM THE PAISLEY DAILY EXPRESS A police Scotland spokesman said: "We are seeking the assistance of the public in tracing Abbie MacIntosh, aged 16 from the Paisley area."Abbie was last seen about 2am on Friday, December 11 in Paisley and is described as 5'5 in height, with black hair and brown eyes and of slim build."Anyone with information as to the whereabouts of Abbie is asked to contact the Police by calling 101 quoting incident number 0813 of 11 December 2020."

Dundee United. Steven Gerrard's side have made a relentless start to the campaign both domestically and in Europe and will look to build on that form on Tayside today.

The search for a missing teenager has resumed for a second day as police desperately appeal for help.

Horrifying footage shows a man seemingly setting fire to a property in Bolton after he doused police officers with petrol when they tried to arrest him.

Bolton has been charged following an incident which saw police officers doused with an accelerant and a property set alight.Christian Smith, of Higher Market Street, Farnworth, has been charged with one count of arson with intent to endanger life, one count of affray, one count of actual bodily harm to a police officer and one count of harassment.The 51-year-old has been remanded into custody.He will appear before Manchester and Salford Magistrates Court tomorrow (Monday, December 14).

Police have dropped their investigation into a Tory MP who was arrested after a woman accused him of rape.

police custody and was dumped there. They say the apprentice blacksmith had lodged a complaint over an assault by an officer shortly before his death.

planning to join the police.Declan Blythe is behind bars awaiting sentence for the murder of Cameron MacMillan, 23, in Motherwell.It has emerged that at the time of the fatal attack in May last year Blythe had ambitions of a career with Police Scotland.A source said Blythe sustained injuries in an incident hours before the killing.He was asked to provide a police statement but told officers he was worried that it might affect his application to join the force.The insider said: “He didn’t want his name attached to a violent incident so soon before trying to become a cop so he refused to co-operate.“Blythe said that, even though he’d been on the receiving end, it would show him up in a bad light.“No one could’ve predicted that just a short

straight to your inbox every day for freeFormer Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal has said Donny van de Beek made the wrong choice in moving to Old Trafford.United paid an initial £35million fee to bring Van de Beek to Old Trafford from Dutch giants Ajax in the summer, though he has flitted in and out of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's team.

force said it was currently treating the baby's death as unexplained, and asked the public for any relevant information as it was "extremely concerned" for the mother's welfare. Now they believe they have located the mother.Detective chief inspector Mike Buck said: "Earlier today we issued an appeal to locate the mother of a newborn baby, whose body was found in a private garden in Weston-super-Mare on Saturday morning."During the course of our enquiries, information has been received which has helped us locate who we believe is the baby's mother.

DAME Barbara Windsor's final wish was that a tax could be made in her name to help people living with dementia. She made the declaration just weeks before her death in a FaceTime call with her onscreen son, Ross Kemp.

A major search is underway for a missing 16-year-old boy with 50 volunteers joining police to find the teenager.

National treasure Dame Barbara Windsor passed away on Thursday 10 December after a long battle with dementia.The vivacious actress, famous for her long stint on EastEnders as Peggy Mitchell, spoke to former co-star Ross Kemp just three weeks prior, where she told him her dying wish. The 83 year old, via FaceTime, spoke to Ross, 56, about her despair over the disease and how much she felt that more research should be done into the topic.

A nuclear war bunker from the Cold War has been listed for auction with a guide price of £50,000.

Showbiz icon Barbara Windsor’s dying wish was for more money to be spent on research into dementia, her former co-star Ross Kemp reveals today.

A small North Carolina town is mourning after one of its police officers became the first to die in the line of duty. Mount Holly Officer Tyler Herndon, 25, was killed at a car wash Friday in a shootout with a burglary suspect.

Amber Gill set tongues wagging after she stepped out with model Jon Hosking on Thursday.

A Marine veteran from Texas who had his legs blown off by a roadside bomb in Iraq has become only the second double amputee police officer in the United States. The inspiring story belongs to Zach Briseno, 35, of Fort Worth, who refused to let the loss of his legs prevent him from achieving his dream of becoming a cop when he grew up.

HullLive reports.