Police in England were tonight facing an investigation into their handling of the manhunt for Raoul Moat as further details of the tense six-hour stand off with the gunman emerged.

British police fired a Taser stun gun during the dramatic last stand by gunman Raoul Moat, Northumbria Police Temporary Chief Constable Sue Sim said today.

Police in the UK were facing questions over the handling of the hunt for fugitive gunman Raoul Moat today after it emerged that several opportunities were missed to intercept the former nightclub bouncer.

FUGITIVE gunman Raoul Moat was believed to be hiding out in remote countryside last night awaiting his final stand with armed police.

Armed police were scouring miles of countryside in England today as the net closed in on suspected killer Raoul Moat.

Police in the UK hunting shooting suspect Raoul Moat shut down a two-mile area around a village today.

Fugitive Raoul Moat vowed not to stop killing "till I'm dead" as he declared "war" on the police in a letter passed to a newspaper.

BRITISH police were warned by prison staff that suspected gunman Raoul Moat may have been planning to harm his ex-girlfriend the day before he allegedly shot her and killed her new boyfriend.

Police in the UK were warned by prison staff that suspected gunman Raoul Moat may have been planning to harm his ex-girlfriend the day before he allegedly shot her and killed her new boyfriend.

A WOMAN who finally confessed to murdering her three babies yesterday had her sentence extended by a British court.

A mother already serving life for killing two of her babies was due to be sentenced today for murdering her first-born child 15 years ago.