A66 road

He will appear in court again in November.

An initial investigation into a crash on the A66 near Middlesbrough in August, which killed seven people, has found no evidence of the use of a stinger before the collision.

Five young men and two officers died when a car travelling the wrong way along the dual carriageway collided with a marked police vehicle.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct says its investigation is continuing.

And I was flying through Scotland, got through Gretna, um, and my problems started in Penrith.

So the A66 is not designed for people on foot.

And so-

Did you have to run down the main road?

Yeah, so, you know, you'd think from a player that had played at the, the top level, they would probably have a more professional, uh, outlook on things, um, on that matter.

Or, uh, the other positive saw other fans down the A66 are-

[laughs]

... uh, enraged as us.

Sheep kept in fields away from farmsteads and grazed in remote upland areas are particularly vulnerable because often there's no one there to notice there's a crime's taking place.

Laura and Shaun Robinson farm near Penrith in Cumbria, and just under a fortnight ago they realized that they had become victims of sheep rustlers, with both tups or rams and ewes missing from one of the fields that they rent next to the busy A66.

There was around 20 tups and 45 ewes gone, Texels and Texel crosses.

Shaun had actually been working on the weekend, and then when he drove past Monday morning, he noticed the gate was open.

So I suppose for, for some people, they wouldn't really think twice about seeing a trailer pulled up or a wagon pulled up to this gate and sheep being loaded into it, would they?

No, and that tractor's just gone past, looked at my pickup, and he's never seen my pickup here before 'cause it's always Shaun's.

So he never blinked twice about it, so neither would people on the A66.

What, what kind of a financial hit will this be to your farm?

Congress would need to pass new legislation before such payments could be made to voters, and that is something fiscally conservative Republicans may well refuse to do.

Hundreds of people have gathered for the funeral of the second of the police officers killed on duty in a head-on crash on the A66 last month.

PC Tom Clough, who was thirty-eight, died alongside his colleague, PC Matthew Blades, whose funeral was held in Hartlepool yesterday.

Our North of England correspondent, Fiona Trott, reports.

The actor Noel Clarke is charged with sex offenses against five women.

Hundreds of people line the streets for the funeral of one of the police officers killed in the A66 crash.

A top safety researcher at artificial intelligence giant Anthropic has warned that there is a greater than ten percent chance it could kill all humans in the next ten years.

Evan Hubinger said the risk posed by current models was low, but the technology could soon develop and pose an existential threat.

I cannot believe that he would actually say that.

The government has committed to spending 3.5% of GDP on defense by 2035, which is a NATO target, but it's not said when it will reach 3%, not least because finding billions extra will require difficult choices.

Hundreds of people have lined the streets in Hartlepool for the funeral of PC Matthew Blades, who died in a head-on crash on the A66 last month.

He and his colleague, Tom Clough, were killed when a car traveling in the wrong direction collided with their vehicle in Middlesbrough.