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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10243980.stm Ministers have played down a report that they may drastically reduce the drink-drive limit for motorists. Government adviser Sir Peter North has submitted a report on the issue to the Department for Transport. According to the Daily Telegraph, Sir Peter recommends cutting the drink-drive limit from 80mg to 50mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood. However, the Department for Transport said no decision had been made on whether to change existing laws. The Telegraph says anyone caught above the new limit would face an automatic 12-month driving ban, even if they were only just over the threshold. The paper also claims Sir Peter has …

The team, now known as the territorial support team, hit screens in a new series of Police Interceptors on Five on June 7. The popular fly on the wall series features some familiar faces from previous shows as well as some new officers. Raw Cut TV have been filming the team of one inspector, five sergeants and 25 constables in action across the county since January. In the first show of the series viewers saw officers cracking down on drink drivers, catching diesel theives and searching for dangerous drivers with the help of the Essex Police helicopter. In later shows the interceptors can be seen cracking down on motoring offences using ANPR, catching suspected burgla…

The 18-year-old from Darlington was found on fire in disused premises as a group of youths tried to steal live electrical cable carrying 11,000 volts. He suffered extensive burns to his arms and head which were initially described as life-threatening. http://www.durham.police.uk/press/news.php?id=1500&area=2&station=11 I have only sympathy for this horrible git.

A teenager who stabbed a St Helens schoolboy to death after catching him in bed with his mum has been sentenced to five years detention. Matthew Briers stumbled across his mother with 15-year-old John Marsh and a scuffle between the pair followed. Matthew Briers hit John Marsh, leaving him with a bloodied face. John left the house but returned with his grandmother and two others. Liverpool Crown Court heard on Thursday how Briers ignored their taunts but when he saw his mother being beaten up in the street he grabbed a kitchen knife to scare them and went outside. John Marsh tried to grab him and Briers, then 17, lost his self-control and stabbed him five times in t…

A woman lied to police and pretended she was the victim of a brutal double rape in order to get out of a motoring offence, a court heard. Sarah Hunter, 30, told police she was dragged from her boyfriend's car and raped in an alleyway by two men to avoid being prosecuted. Specialist officers spent seven hours interviewing her while forensic teams performed a finger-tip search of the area. Sarah Hunter appeared before Coventry Magistrates Court after lying about being raped by two men to avoid being prosecuted over a motoring offence But Hunter finally admitted to police she made the allegation up because she was scared of being prosecuted for crashing her boyfriend's…

A MURDER investigation was under way today after a 21-year-old man was fatally knifed in the chest outside a Burton nightspot. Connor Upton, of Lincoln Road, Stapenhill, died following an incident near Merlin's Nightclub, in Station Street, at around 3.45am yesterday. Police said he was taken to Burton's Queen's Hospital but later died from his injuries. His killer is believed to have fled in a taxi. In an unrelated incident, detectives are investigating an apparent drive-by shooting in which a house was peppered with bullets. No-one was hurt. As a murder probe began, a spokesman for Staffordshire Police said: "Officers were called to Station Street, in Burton, at a…

Police today unveiled what appeared to be their latest weapon in the fight against crime - a pedal-powered patrol car complete with siren and blue flashing light. The new five-gear vehicle, which has a top speed of 20mph, cost over £1,000, has full Hampshire Constabulary livery and a roll bar to protect the driver in the event of a crash. However, police admit that even if they are pedalling furiously the 6ft-long vehicle is unlikely to be able to apprehend anyone other than 'those with a zimmer frame'. PC Keith Waller in his pedal-powered patrol car, complete with flashing lights, 'pulls over' a driver. The vehicle has been built by local schoolchildren to take part…

Fraudsters have fleeced two men out of £55,000 by selling fake winning lottery tickets in two big-money scams. The most recent incident left a 55-year-old man in hospital after he cottoned on to a £30,000 scam - but was pushed out of a car by two conmen as they fled. According to Hounslow police, the unwitting victim was walking through Beaversfield Park, in Hounslow, at 1.45pm on May 25, when he was approached by two Asian men, one in a smart suit, the other wearing a yellow shirt and jeans. The casually-dressed fraudster claimed he had won the lottery but had no identity papers so could not scoop the cash. His smartly-dressed partner in crime convinced the middle-…

http://kensington.londoninformer.co.uk/2008/07/six-months-for-station-spitter.html#more A spitting commuter has been sent to prison for six months after launching a saliva-filled attack on staff and police at a Kensington tube station. Six months about right, it is a nasty habit people have, ever been spat at?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/10252405.stm?ls Young offenders from Germany are being sent to Siberia in an attempt to steer them away from further trouble. I am sure our louts will get a kick out of this, spit at a Officer, get six months winter time in this luxury holiday camp.

A policeman who lied about a motoring offence when stopped by colleagues has been jailed. Dean Hardy, 35, of North Wales Police, claimed he had a valid MOT certificate. The 35-year-old of Moreton, The Wirral, later asked a more junior police officer to sign a form on which he had lied. The Deeside-based officer denied perverting the course of justice but was convicted by a jury. He was jailed for four months. Sentencing Hardy at Newport Crown Court, Judge Paul Thomas QC said he had shown a "cavalier disregard for the law", adding that he was making an example of him. "Attempting to pervert the course of justice is an offence where an immediate custodial sentence is i…

Two pedestrians were killed when they were hit by a police car responding to an incident in Bedfordshire. The men died when the marked police car came off the road after colliding with a vehicle at the junction of Holland Road and Leagrave Road in Luton. Bedfordshire Police has referred the incident to the Independent Police Complaints Commission. The junction has been closed while the investigation into the collision on Friday night is carried out. Neither of the two police officers who were in the car or the driver of the other vehicle were injured. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds_bucks_and_herts/10244595.stm Those officers involved must feel absolutely te…

Potentially dangerous psychiatric patients are being fitted with GPS tracking devices to prevent them absconding on day leave. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/10245086.stm The South London and Maudsley NHS Trust has attached the £600 ankle devices on more than 60 medium and high risk patients under the pilot scheme. Well that's awesome. After spending a billion hours and trillions of pounds searching for day release patients that were let out just to pop home, and who double pinky swore that they would come back, a solution has been found. Let's hope it spreads and that they can't just be taken off by anyone.