UK News & Investigations

TWO people have sadly been murdered today on Christman Day 2025 in separate incidents of violence. First, a man was fatally stabbed this morning in Wolverhampton. Police were called just after 3.30am to Burcot Avenue, after a 30-year-old man was stabbed. Despite the best efforts of paramedics, he was pronounced dead at the scene. Two men, aged 35 and 58, have been arrested on suspicion of murder. A scene is currently in place while we carry out enquiries. Detective Chief Supe

POLICE have found "no evidence" of a gunman firing at three people after reports a bike-riding attacker blasted shots in the street. Armed Police were sent to Thames Street in Toxteth just before 3.55pm on Friday, December 12 2025, after reports a man on a bike shot at three people. A police cordon, from Kinglsey Road naer its junction with Beaconsfield Street and Thames Street was put in place while officers carried out CCTV, forensic and house-to-house enquiries. But after

THIRTY eight people have been arrested during a huge police operation across a crime-plagued part of Liverpool today. Codenamed Operation Vanguard, Merseyside Police sent a convoy of police vehicles for a series of raids in Stockbmberridge Village and Huyton today, Thursday 11 December 2025. More than 250 police officers have been conducting warrants, roadside checks, land and underwater searches and more in a "sustained and relentless offensive against criminals" operating i

A MANHUNT is underway after a man was stabbed in a park in Southampton. Hampshire Police officers are investigating a serious assault which occurred in East Park on Sunday afternoon, December 7 2025. A force spokesperson said: "We were called just before 4.15pm to a report of a 33-year-old man who had suffered stab injuries to the rear of his leg. "He was taken to hospital, where he was found to also have a broken leg. None of his injuries are thought to be life-threatening a

Last week UK News and Investigations was ahead of the game with an exclusive report that Action Fraud would be killed off in December and replaced by Report Fraud. Read our exclusive report here. Today, City of London Police has confirmed report Fraud went live today, December 4 2025, with a full launch in January. A City of London police spokesperson said: "From Thursday 4 December 2025, anyone needing to report cyber crime or fraud will be directed to our new Report Fraud s

THE UK's "failed" scam reporting system Action Fraud is set to finally be axed within weeks, with a "soft launch" of its replacement due next month<Dec> following repeated delays after MPs branded it "not fit for purpose" and "failing victims." The beleaguered system is set to be rebranded as "Report Fraud" with new technology that promises to speed up the process and also to collect evidence for potential police investigations. The replacement has been dogged by setbacks aft

A DAD of five and his stepson have been sentenced after they each strangled cops who tried to arrest them after the older man attacked a stranger on a drunken night out. Special Inspector Mark Barham feared he could have died at the hands of Sam Minter, 39, (above left in custody image and right from police body worn camera on the night) as he throttled him on a pitch black river bank. He was saved by colleagues who used PAVA spray to subdue Minter who had drunk five pints an

A WOMAN who died "following disorder" in a Swindon property was "incredible and caring" colleagues have said as a 13-year-old girl arrested on suspicion of murder has been bailed. Sarah Forrester, 55, (above) from the Wiltshire town was described was pronounced dead on Friday evening. A Wiltshire Police spokesperson said: "An investigation is continuing into her death, and a 13-year-old girl who was arrested in connection with it has since been bailed. "A heightened police pr

A BRITISH man who was a key figure in an international online child abuse platform that exploited at least 25 underage UK girls, from the home he shared with his mother has been jailed for seven and a half years. Bradley Talbot, 29, from Portsmouth, was a 'moderator' on a twisted Telegram group that incited girls aged 12 to 17 and groomed online into sex acts that were filmed and livestreamed to about 6,000 members across the globe. The group had 'poster girls' and degraded i

POLICE found a stash of seven hunting knives and a host of suspected stolen items in a car after a dramatic foot and car pursuit - but only after private security guards insisted officers attend the scene. An officer for private security firm My Local Bobby (MLB) saw two vehicles parked suspiciously close to each other with all doors open at the Palms Hotel off the A127 at Hornchurch on Wednesday, November 5, at just after 2pm. The officer had seen the same vehicles driving v