Salford siege enters seventh hour as police negotiate with man inside home and neighbours are evacuated

Covid-19 were detected. Inchmarlo Care Home in Banchory, Aberdeenshire has been closed to new admissions and visitors after the coronavirus outbreak.NHS Grampian say that the 44 cases affect both residents and staff.

SNP education spokesman Councillor Andrew Miller tried to raise an urgent motion to the last meeting of the full council.  That was rejected.Councillor Miller said: “The provost ruled this matter as not being urgent and swept it under the carpet until next year.  Meanwhile as we hit Christmas, parents continue to receive bills, some accompanied by the threat of removal of instruments if they don’t pay up.“Due to covid restrictions practical lessons for many instruments are not permitted in schools.  We do not support tuition fees in schools on principle, but to charge parents for tuition their children aren’t even receiving is beyond ridiculous.”A West Lothian Council spokesperson said: “High-quality instrumental music tuition continues to

direct to your inboxA police chief has defended the number of officers on duty at the Victoria station complex on the night of the Ariana Grande concert bomb attack at Manchester Arena.Michelle Wedderburn, a British Transport Police Inspector, gave evidence on day 43 of the public inquiry into the atrocity, which claimed 22 lives and left hundreds more injured on May 22, 2017.A tactical policing deployment plan, believed to have been written in 2014 but in force in 2017, was shown.It recommended that for large scale events at the Arena, like the Ariana Grande concert, a sergeant, four constables and two police community support officers (PCSOs) should be deployed.The document said the figures would 'enable officers to monitor the safe

in Bolton.  Police are now appealing for information following the incident, which happened on November 9 in Over Hulton. Officers were called to reports a group of four men had pulled down a garden wall at a property on Crescent Avenue. It is believed one of the men then posed as a member of the council’s health and safety team. They tried persuading the occupant of the house to fill in some paperwork before asking how much money the victim had. The occupant – a man in his 70s – refused to comply and went to inform a neighbour. The man then fled the scene. Officers have now released images of a man they wish to speak to in connection with the incident.

arrested for tying straw around her six-year-old daughter’s hands before setting them on fire to teach her a lesson for stealing sweets from a shop.The incident took place in the area of Alto K’ara K’ara in the city of Cochabamba in the central Bolivian department of the same name after the young victim and her four-year-old sister stole some sweets from a local shop.According to reports, the mother also wanted to burn her youngest girl's hands but she managed to run away when she saw her sister suffering the shocking punishment.The injured child's mum and stepdad have since been arrested, although the mum was later released because she is six months pregnant.The shop owner complained to the children’s parents after spotting them stealing

Manchester United have been urged to sign Aston Villa captain Jack Grealish by Liverpool legend Steve Nicol. Grealish has been in excellent form this season, netting five goals and providing six assists in nine Premier League appearances.He was heavily linked with a move away from Villa over the summer but the midfielder put pen to paper on a new five-year contract.

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Los Angeles cops reported to Billie Lourd's residence on Wednesday after a shooting occurred. A spokesperson at the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to Fox News on Thursday that officers responded to a property on the basis of a phone call received about suspected gunfire.

South Carolina law enforcement officials are investigating a suspected connection between a pair of shootings that collectively killed two and wounded 17 people others, police told Fox News. Officials from the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office and the Aiken County Department of Safety said Thursday they are working together in investigating a Saturday night shooting that wounded 18 people, one fatally, in conjunction with a second shooting the next day, when one person was struck and killed.

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterThousands of coronavirus home test kits will be made available in South Ayrshire from tomorrow morning.Council bosses have obtained 5000 kits to tackle the 'silent spread' of the virus.And starting tomorrow (Friday), residents who are not displaying symptoms will be able to test themselves.The kits, which are provided by the NHS, will be distributed from pop-up facilities set up in Ayr's Kincaidston Bowling Club and Lochside Community Centre and Maybole Town Hall.You don’t need to make an appointment to collect a kit, with pick-up and returns available at any of the three locations between 10am – 4pm on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and 8.30am

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hereDuring the call, the child could be heard saying: "Andy, what have you done?""Why have you done that to my mum?"Former cage fighter Andrew Wadsworth stabbed to death Melissa Belshaw, his former partner."Are they on their way?,” the child repeatedly asked the 999 operator.Wadsworth was still in the house she shared with her mother on Upholland Road in Wigan."He's just stabbed my mum," she told the operator."Come quickly," she pleaded."Please hurry up," the child said, knowing her phone battery was at one per cent.As she remained on the call, a workman who heard her shouting 'she's not breathing' got a hammer and smashed a window to allow her to escape the house, as the door was locked.Drug-crazed Wadsworth, who was described as looking

The cast of “Lord Of The Rings” are coming together for J.R.R. Tolkien.

James McClain Barely two months after he rocked Beverly Hills by paying $39.1 million for a grand old mansion in one of the city’s best neighborhood pockets, ticket tycoon Eric Baker is aiming, unsurprisingly, to set the market alight once again.

A Georgia police K-9 sniffed out a fugitive wanted in connection to the July murder of another man, locating the suspect hiding in a park dumpster on Tuesday, authorities said. K-9 Hummer and his handler Cpl.

direct to your inboxA man threatened to stab a woman and send an intimate video of her to her family unless she gave him thousands of pounds in cash.Chisom Adams, 24, took a total of £8,000 from the victim though blackmailing her, threatening her and taking cash from her account without permission over several months, in order to pay off a drug debt.On one occasion he told her that if she refused to withdraw money from a cash point, he would stab her, and showed her a series of scars on his body claiming he had been stabbed himself.Get the latest updates from across Greater Manchester direct to your inbox with the free MEN newsletterYou can sign up very simply by following the instructions hereHe also filmed her engaging in an intimate act

crash with two vehicles in Aberdeenshire has been named as 52-year-old Robert Cowie. Robert died at the scene of the collision on the A90 near his home in Boddam on Wednesday.Police investigations into the incident are ongoing.

Twitter and called for the party to investigate - saying the barrage of abuse she received from men was detrimental to her health.Stand up comedian Janey Godley, 59, is a regular on Have I Got News For You, and has appeared on This Morning, as well as mimicking first minister Nicola Sturgeon's coronavirus briefings.But she claims she has been bombarded with messages for 18 months by Scottish Labour councillor Alex Gallagher, who represents Largs, North Ayrshire.She claimed he 'trolled' her with a news clipping about her mum, who was murdered.Janey shared a BBC video clip where she talked about memories of her childhood, and her mum's murder - but received a message on Twitter from Cllr Gallagher saying 'who is Janey Godley?'.He also

straight to your inboxFulham will have a full squad to bring north to face Manchester City this weekend, as boss Scott Parker admitted the odds are against his side to take any points back to London.Fulham won their first away game of the season on Monday, with an impressive 2-1 win at Leicester going into the clash with City on Saturday. That was a boost for a misfiring Fulham side, and Parker revealed on Thursday that he has a fully fit squad to choose from aside from long-term absentee Kenny Tete.Parker said: “No fresh injuries.

The Connecticut home where former Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh was trapped in a fire reportedly belonged to his rumored girlfriend, a longtime employee of the shoe e-tailer and a prominent cellist. Hsieh, 46, was overcome by smoke inside a shed attached to a $1.3 million home in New London that he’d purchased in August for Rachael Brown, according to Fox 61.

The Democratic mayor of Austin, Texas, should resign after calling for his constituents to stay home to slow the spread of COVID while he was vacationing in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Fox News contributor Mike Huckabee said on Thursday. “When people shut down businesses and entire economies, the government officials who make the decision should not take a paycheck.