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Police are renewing their appeal for motorists not to leave their cars defrosting on the driveway - with the keys in the ignition - as freezing weather is set to return over the weekend.

Emergency services in Cumbria have been stretched to their operational limits as they were forced to deal with more murders in one day than they usually have to cope with in a year.

Two men have been questioned by police over the murder of Pc Keith Blakelock, the police constable killed during the 1985 Broadwater Farm riots.

Police officers in England and Wales will be given more discretion to decide when crime suspects should be charged, the home secretary has said.

More than half of senior police officers are suffering from anxiety 
and depression brought on by under-staffing, bullying chief constables 
and 60-hour working weeks

Spending on police overtime in England and Wales has increased by 90 per cent in the past decade, according to the latest figures.

Hundreds of police officers have suffered hearing damage because of the high volume of their radios, it has emerged.

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