Thieves towed away gear worth £10,000 after forcing their way through a south coast company’s gates. Containers of tractor oil were among items stolen from the Highwood firm.
Surveillance cameras captured the moment two soldiers were murdered. Sapper Patrick Azimkar from north London pushed a colleague to the ground before he was shot dead outside their barracks at an ambush in Antrim. The footage was shown in the trial of two men accused of their murder.
There are safety fears at a closed mine site which has been dubbed a “tragedy waiting to happen”. The site is on the boundary between Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot boroughs.
Criticism was directed at a borough council for turning down an offer from a supermarket to pay for new public toilets when it built a new branch at Reading in 2010.
Savings will be made by changes to public toilet opening times, it is claimed by a council. The new closure periods affect three Mid Wales towns, while the toilets will no longer be manned.
Police are hunting thieves who stole a hut and outside toilet under the noses of a publicly-used street. The items were taken from a locked depot in Dumgoyne, Scotland. The yard area is used by the local council for roadworks and would have required large lifting tools.
A train’s windscreen was struck by a damaged pylon due to the theft of overhead power lines. Network Rail said the thefts were widespread on lines, some of which came down in Essex late on Wednesday, September 21.
Officers mounted early morning raids on a host of waste recycling centres and scrap metal yards trying to uncover stolen materials. Members of the Environment Agency and police swooped over the north of England following widespread thefts.
A farmer is urging officials to think again about taking down a fence that was put up to combat disease. Edwin Harris, who lost about 1,000 sheep when foot and mouth disease struck ten years ago, said everything on the Brecon Beacons had changed since then.
Locals are in uproar over the possibility of losing the public toilets in Epping town centre in favour of a restaurant. One person doubting plans to keep toilets open is June O’Brien, a member of the Epping Society.