British police News

Witnesses told British media that the police arrived quickly at the scene soon after shots were heard.

The discovery of the bodies - 38 adults and one teenager - was made in the early hours after emergency services were alerted to people in a truck container on a gritty industrial site in Grays, about 20 miles (32 km) east of central London.

The scientific support unit scanned the image into its system but could not find a match because the photograph contained just parts of the middle and bottom of a finger visible while records only keep the top part.

The incident comes days after a Russian spy was allegedly poisoned with a deadly nerve agent.

British police said they had arrested a woman who was trying to scale the front gates of Queen Elizabeth's Buckingham Palace home in central London on Saturday, saying the incident was not terrorism-related.

British police said on Tuesday they had released three men who were arrested in connection with the bomb attack on a London underground train earlier this month.

British police said on Thursday morning they had made a sixth arrest linked to Friday`s tube attack in Parsons Green, London, that injured 30 people.

Prime Minister Theresa May put Britain on the highest security level of "critical" late on Friday, meaning another attack may be imminent.

British police said they had arrested a man carrying a knife outside Buckingham Palace on Friday night.

British police said on Wednesday they had arrested the brother of a man suspected of abducting a British model in Milan and threatening to auction her online unless a ransom was paid.

The charges include grievous bodily harm, possession of an item to discharge a noxious substance, and robbery.

British police on Monday made several arrests in two dawn raids following the London attack claimed by the Islamic State group which left seven people dead.

British police said they had arrested two men on Saturday as they stepped up their efforts to capture a suspected network behind the suicide bomber who killed 22 people in Manchester earlier this week. 

 Leaks from the investigation into the Manchester terror attack are undermining the investigation.

British police on Friday said that officers had shot at a woman at a London address, arrested six others as part of counter-terrorism operations and averted an active terror plot.

British police said on Friday they had thwarted an active terrorism plot after a woman was shot during an armed raid on a house in north London.

British police said on Monday they had arrested nine people after a "brutal" attack on a teenage asylum seeker involving a group up to 20 assailants in south London.

The pictures were reported by The Sun and Daily Mail newspapers to have been stolen from Middleton's iCloud account and included shots of her sister Kate, plus her and William's children Prince George, three, and Princess Charlotte, one.

British police arrested 55 people and seized blades at a Sikh temple on Sunday, following a demonstration at the holy site believed to be protesting a mixed marriage.

Fourteen people were arrested on Sunday for aggravated trespassing in the West Midlands region of England after a gang of 20-30 sword-wielding men stormed a Sikh temple, apparently opposing a mixed race marriage between a Sikh and a non-Sikh couple.