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Motorists were left in a flap after a SWAN crashed through a car windscreen. The young bird stopped traffic as it strolled along the A404 in Marlow, Bucks., with its mate on Thursday afternoon. But it suddenly decided to take flight, before ploughing through the windscreen of a passing BMW 4x4. A dramatic image taken by a passer-by shows the smashed glass with the bird's wing sticking out of the driver's side. A woman could be seen quickly emerging from...

Three evil thugs who forced a 14-year-old girl into prostitution and made her have sex with 30 'clients' after plying her with drugs and booze have been jailed for 18 years. Monsters Jake Cairns, 21, Jack McNally, 21 and Brandon Sharples, 20, exploited the vulnerable victim after holding her captive and forced her to have sex with strangers. A court heard the trio advertised her services online after making her pose naked for photos and pretended she was 18-years-old on...

A dog walker has described the moment he had his finger bitten off - by a massive wild BOAR. Terrified Clive Lilley, 53, has become the first victim in Britain attacked by the booming population of feral pigs. Clive was mauled by the boar as he took a morning stroll with his labrador down a woodland track. The beast burst out of the undergrowth and ripped the top of his right forefinger off during the attack in Lydney, Forest of...

A woman who disclosed to police she had killed a man a number of years ago has been charged with murder. Barbara Coombes, 63, is said to have walked into a police station and confessed to killing the man and then burying him in a garden. Officers combed the garden in Reddish, Stockport - on Tuesday and found human remains. Coombes has now been charged with murder, preventing the lawful and decent burial of a dead body, fraud by false...

These are the chilling final moments of a teenager before she was strangled to death as she laughs and jokes with the man accused of murdering her just hours later. Jobless Ashley Foster, 24, had only just been released from prison three days before he allegedly killed 17-year-old Megan Bills during a sex game. The church-going teenager's body was found badly decomposed at a hostel for former inmates in Brierley Hill, West Mids., on May 3 last year. A court...

A disgraced police officer caught with indecent images of children "of the worst kind" has AVOIDED jail - after a judge told him he was "impressed" with his guilty plea. James Duffield, 34, downloaded hundreds of pictures of children as young as four-years-old being abused while working for West Midlands Police. A court heard how officers raided his home after an intelligence-led operation and recovered two laptops containing sick images and movies in August last year. The dad-of-two previously admitted...

A 43-year-old creep who blew kisses at a schoolgirl before following her home has been jailed for stalking - in what police believe is a legal first. Bahram Hekmat pulled up at the bus stop where the 13-year-old was waiting to get home from school, and beckoned for her to get in his car. The terrified girl boarded a 279 bus in Enfield, north London, but Hekmat followed the bus and parked when it stopped. Hekmat continued blowing kisses at...

A rider with a hunt caught on camera whipping a protester with her crop SEVENTEEN TIMES could face a private prosecution after police said she wouldn't be charged. Shocking footage of the incident went viral in November after it appeared to show the rider whipping the saboteur who had grabbed her horse's reins. Cries of 'Let go!' and 'Get off the horse!' can be heard, while others shouted for the woman to stop using her mount 'as a weapon' in...

Parts of the Sahara desert were covered in up to 16 inches of snow as they got hit by a rare snowstorm. It's the third time in 40 years that Ain Sefra, known as “The Gateway to the Desert”, has seen snowfall. In 1979, a snowstorm lasting half an hour stopped traffic. Two years ago, snow settled for around a day, and the town saw snowfall again last year. See the footage in full below: Rare snowstorm blankets parts of the Sahara...