Police close in on fugitive gunman

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

Officers and sniffer dogs scoured fields, woods and outhouses for the former nightclub bouncer near where he abandoned his car in Rothbury, Northumberland.

An ex-girlfriend revealed that he knew the rugged landscape around the village “like the back of his hand” and said he could live rough there for days.