A main highway in Tel Aviv, Ayalon, has been shut due to extreme flooding which is currently affecting Israel.
Photographs shared by Israeli police show the road submerged in water, after the river that runs alongside the highway burst it's banks. Three people were killed and another was seriously injured in a car accident early on Tuesday morning, on Highway 1 between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
The cause of the accident is thought to be due to the adverse weather conditions. Magen David Adom rescue services pronounced the three casualties dead at the scene.
Officers are investigating an attempted robbery on a 14-year-old boy in Seaton.
The Seaton schoolboy was walking along Valley View on 3 January when he was approached from behind by a man who grabbed him by the jumper and tried to snatch his iPhone.
The phone fell to the ground and the offender made off empty-handed towards the fire station.
The boy was left very shaken by the incident which happened around 5.35pm and the phone was damaged.
Police are appealing for witnesses and are asking for anyone who saw the incident to contact them on 101, quoting...
Members of Devon and Cornwall Police have hit the streets of Falmouth ‘Gangnam Style’ to help raise funds for a young boy left with disabilities following a brain tumour.
Sergeant Gary Watts ‘persuaded’ colleagues from the town station to join him in a public re-creation of the cult music video by South Korean rapper PSY. Officers and PCSOs put their dancing skills to the test to film the parody at various locations in the town, including Falmouth Quay.
The tongue-in-cheek charity video, which has now been posted on the Force Youtube site at: http://youtu.be/jhWrCGVMQf8 and...
Yesterday afternoon (Thursday, 3rd January) police arrested two men under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act – the preparation of a terrorist act.
The two arrested men were initially detained on suspicion of committing criminal damage, but later rearrested under the Terrorism Act.
Police spent much of yesterday searching an address in Lymington Road, Torquay, which required the evacuation of a small number of neighbouring properties, including a 31-week pregnant woman. The road cordons have now been removed, although police remain at the property.
After yet another day of searching for Jordan Cobb, who was last seen jumping from Torpoint Ferry on New Year's Eve, there appears to be no sign of the missing boy.
From 10am, three RNLI Lifeboats and two MoD launches undertook searches in the area north of the Breakwater in Plymouth Sound. The coordinated search involved some 50 members of staff from the Coastguard and Devon & Cornwall and Ministry of Defence (MoD) Police and included both sides of the river and the dockyard taking advice from the force Lost Person Search Manager (LPSM).
Leicestershire Police are appealing for help to trace a missing man who may have travelled to Devon and Cornwall.
Donald Balding, 48, of High Street, Measham, was reported missing on Monday 3rd December 2012 by a friend after a lack of contact.
It is believed that there was a sighting of Mr Balding at the Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, on Monday 10 December.
Mr Balding is described as white, approximately 6ft tall, of stocky build with a receding hairline closely shaved at the sides. He may have a goatee beard and he wears glasses for reading.
Police are asking for the public's help to locate a man who went missing from HMP Leyhill in South Gloucestershire.
Sean Cawthray, aged 41 was last seen on Sunday (December 30th) at HMP Leyhill at about 5.30pm and is thought to have left the prison sometime before 8.30pm.
He was reported missing and police enquiries have been underway since to locate him.
He has links to Leicestershire, Yorkshire, London and the South West and it is possible he may have travelled from the south west to one of these areas.
He is described as a white man, 5ft 9ins to 5ft 11ins...
Police were called to Lymington Road in Torquay this morning following reports of a suspicious package in the vicinity of the coach station.
Police have since closed off parts of Lymington Road, Parkfield Road and Forest Road and they will remain closed for the time being. Motorists are advised to avoid the area.
Officers currently remain at the scene.
Eight properties are said to have been evacuated at this time.
Police investigating the Christmas Day burglary at Bridgetown Post Office, Totnes, are appealing for information about a wooden post that was left at the scene. The post was marked Torbay Totnes Trail, John Musgrave Trail, and County Road, Devon County Council. Officers hope that someone who regularly walks the trail may be able to pinpoint where the sign was taken from.
A 4-wheel drive vehicle was used to smash a window in the premises and the suspects made off in a Subaru. The Subaru later crashed on the A381 and one of the occupants, a 25-year-old man was arrested.
