Fire and rescue services in England need to be "transformed" to become more efficient and effective, a government-commissioned review has said. Sir Ken Knight said incidents were down 40% over the past decade but the number of firefighters was roughly the same. Read the rest of this entry »

A man has been injured after a tanker overturned on an Aberdeenshire road. The accident happened on the B979 near Parkhead, about one mile south of the B9077 South Deeside Road, shortly after 09:00. Read the rest of this entry »

A building has partially collapsed following a major fire in Windsor. No-one was injured in the blaze which started before 22:00 BST and was tackled by more than 80 firefighters. Read the rest of this entry »

About 30 homes were evacuated in Lisburn, County Antrim, due to a gas leak on Tuesday night. The police and firefighters went to the scene of the incident at Longstone Street in the city. Read the rest of this entry »

Two elderly women were taken to hospital after a car they were in crashed into a bungalow in Cornwall. The women were back seat passengers in the vehicle, which struck and damaged the home in the village of Dobwalls at about 12:00 BST on Sunday. Read the rest of this entry »

The father who was killed in a speedboat accident which also left his eight-year-old daughter dead was named by police today. Nicholas Milligan, 51, a senior executive with BSkyB, was declared dead at the scene in Padstow, Cornwall, yesterday afternoon. Read the rest of this entry »

A 51-year-old man and his eight-year-old daughter were killed and four other members of their family airlifted to hospital after a speedboat accident, police have confirmed. Devon and Cornwall Police said the family from London was on holiday in Cornwall over the Bank Holiday weekend when the accident happened in the Camel Estuary near Padstow. Read the rest of this entry »

A man who collapsed at a Scottish Premier League match leading to it being abandoned has died in hospital, police said. The man, aged in his 50s, collapsed with a suspected heart attack in Rugby Park's East Stand five minutes into the second half of Kilmarnock's home match against Hibernian. Read the rest of this entry »

A 30-year-old British man has died during a trek across Greenland's ice sheet, the Foreign Office has said. Philip Goodeve-Docker, of Ealing, west London, was on the 400-mile expedition with two friends, when they were caught in a severe snowstorm on Sunday. Read the rest of this entry »