The decomposed remains of missing police officer Gordon Semple were discovered after a neighbour alerted Scotland Yard to a “smell of death” coming from a housing estate flat.

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A photo taken by a passerby of a police officer in England helping an elderly man with his shopping has gone viral since being posted online.

This Facebook post by the police on the Isles of Scilly will make you smile.

If you don't follow Isles of Scilly Police on Facebook, you should.

A trial date has been set for two men accused of murdering an off-duty police constable.

The painting is two feet wide by one foot long. The hoodie’s exact dimensions are unknown, but it’s not big enough for this attempted concealment job.

Two people have been arrested in connection with the death of a cyclist in a car accident during a 24-hour charity ride.

Donations are still pouring in for a father-of-three who was killed in a car accident during a 24-hour charity cycle ride.

Lawyers representing injured victims and families of those killed in the Glasgow helicopter crash have started legal action against the aircraft’s operator.

A witness to the car crash that killed three members of the same Cork family has told how the driver seemed to accelerate in their direction in the moments before the collision.

Miranda Hart is to take on five mystery challenges for Comic Relief.

A keen-witted policeman has completed a witness statement in the name of a canine police 'officer'.

SATURDAY

The police are “our last line of protection against the savagery of the jungle”, a bishop said today as prayers were held in memory of two policewomen murdered in a gun and grenade attack.

Officers remain under threat after the deaths of two policewomen in a grenade and gun attack, Peter Fahy, the chief constable of Greater Manchester Police warned last night.

There’s always been an elitism in Galway hurling that influenced the way the county used to play.

“Significant questions” remain about the behaviour of a police officer who was cleared of manslaughter during the G20 protests, the police watchdog said.

NUI Galway has today announced the recipients of its honorary degrees for 2012.

Pc David Rathband – the police officer shot and blinded by Raoul Moat – was found hanged, a coroner in Britain heard today.

The British policeman who was shot and blinded by crazed gunman Raoul Moat has been found dead at his home in a suspected suicide.

A man who rambled through a popular beauty spot naked except for a backpack, boots and a baseball cap has been fined £315 (€378.16).

Police in the North have arrested two men in connection with the shooting of an unarmed police officer in London.

RELATIVES of Ian Tomlinson stormed out of his inquest after the police officer who pushed the newspaper seller to the ground during the G20 protests told an inquest he wanted to “help the family”.

Dissident republicans who murdered a young Catholic police officer are waging a useless war against peace, Martin McGuinness said today.

Police in the North are combing the scene of an explosion that killed a Catholic officer to find out how the dissident republican bomb was made.

THE young policeman killed in a booby trap car bomb had only been serving in the area for weeks, shocked colleagues said.

Detectives in the North were carrying out a manhunt today after police officer Ronan Kerr was killed by a booby trap car bomb in Omagh.

IAN TOMLINSON looked “out of it” and “wasted” minutes before he was shoved to the ground by a police officer at the G20 protests, an inquest heard.

Colin Howell's US-born wife may be questioned again by detectives who re-opened the investigation into the deaths of his first wife and PC Trevor Buchanan, it was revealed today

WHEN Brendan Smith takes up his new role as part-time justice minister next week one of the first letters he will receive will be from Labour TD Michel D Higgins demanding a statement on the government’s level of knowledge of rogue British undercover policeman Mark Kennedy’s activities in Ireland.

AN undercover British police officer who infiltrated a radical environmental movement encouraged illegal activity during protests opposing the controversial Shell Corrib pipe-line in north Mayo, an Irish Examiner investigation has revealed.

POLICE investigating the theft of a caravan in Britain have issued a picture of a man seen on Google Street View at the scene of the crime.

TWO alleged accomplices of gunman Raoul Moat will face trial next year accused of conspiracy to murder.

THE mother of the man murdered by gunman Raoul Moat attacked police yesterday for not “keeping an eye” on her son.

Police hunting fugitive gunman Raoul Moat said today they have found three of his mobile phones.

A MAN suspected of carrying out a triple shooting was yesterday urged by police to give himself up as a huge manhunt entered its third day.

Two men who used their dogs to savage police officers in the UK were each jailed for five years today.

A Catholic policeman who survived a dissident republican bomb attack has had his right leg amputated, police confirmed today.

A HERO policeman who was swept to his death in the Cumbrian floods had devoted himself to helping others cope with tragedy, mourners were told.

A 17-YEAR-old was arrested yesterday in connection with a homophobic attack on an off-duty policeman.

Police in Britain appealed for help today to trace two young girls who have gone missing.