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A paramedic had her phone snatched out of her hand by moped thieves while she was while she was responding to an emergency. Cycle paramedic Katherine McKenna, 32, was about to respond to an emergency call where an elderly man had fallen down stairs when her mobile was swiped. She was attacked by three muggers on two mopeds, all wearing helmets with black visors covering their faces, in London's West End on July 25, while she was wearing her paramedic...

A gang of moped raiders armed with hammers, knives and a gun stole £1 million worth of mobile phones and tablets in 17 raids on stores across London, a court heard. The gang of young men allegedly raided Three Mobile shops where they would smash their way in with a battering ram, break into the stock room and swipe the latest handsets, before escaping on waiting mopeds. Security guards placed in some stores overnight by the mobile company were brutally...

A senior clergyman who took nearly 600 images of men in public toilets on his phone was spared jail. The Very Reverend Martin Thrower, 56, was given four months in jail suspended for two years after being caught filming a teenage boy in a shopping centre toilet. Police found the married priest's photos on his phone but he denied having a sexual fetish with men in toilets. The grey-haired rector of the village of Hadleigh with Layham and Shelley in...

A jogger was left with blood pouring down his face after a huge bird of prey swooped down on him - and tried to rip his head off. Andy Llewellyn, 44, thought he was being attacked by a mugger when the bird raked its razor-sharp talons down his skull. The Boots training manager was knocked to the ground and was left with two six-inch long gouges running from the crown of his head to above his eyebrows. Injuries to Andy...

A squaddie who was bitten by a spider related to the deadly black widow was left with a gaping hole in his leg which was so deep it exposed his MUSCLES. Matt Clarke, 31, was bitten by a false black widow spider as he was lying in bed and despite not being life-threatening - the wound left him unable to walk. Army man Matt said he woke up from a deep sleep with a "tingly sensation" and he noticed the...

Live flight data of a Boeing 797 shows it is drawing a huge Dreamliner across the United States of America. Flight BOE004 set off from Seattle over ten hours ago according to AirNav data. It has since travelled east to Michigan before turning back on itself and heading into the central states of America, carving out a picture of a Dreamliner on its route. The flight path, which can be seen unfurling now, seems to be a publicity stunt for Boeing...

The parents of a three-year-old boy fighting a rare form of cancer are devastated after he missed the deadline for a potentially lifesaving drug trial - by just 14 days. Little Oliver Welch was diagnosed with cancer of the specialised nerve cells known as neuroblastoma two weeks after the cut-off point for the US experiment. His father Mark Welch says the only way Oliver could now have the immunotherapy treatment is to foot the bill themselves - which could be...

A graphic designer who amassed more than 40,000 indecent images of children has been jailed - after he sent pictures to an undercover detective in a police sting. Warped Lee Elmore, 40, also had movies of a woman having sex with a dog and admitted to downloading indecent material for a decade. A court heard the dad-of-one told an undercover officer that he had had sex with a minor once "but wanted to do it again soon". Police discovered his...

Police are investigating after a snared dead fox was bizarrely left strung up on garden gate in broad daylight. Locals claim the homeowner caught the vixen in a snare trap set in his back garden to "catch rabbits to eat" - and then hung it at the roadside. Animal activists were alerted to the bloodied body of the female fox - allegedly with a snare through its mouth - and took it down on Friday. Now police in Minster-on-Sea on...