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Violent crime across England and Wales has risen by one fifth in one year, the latest figures show.

A man has been charged with five counts of attempted murder following a spate of stabbings in the Edmonton area of north London during the last week.

One of Britain’s top cops has warned prominent pro-Brexit figures to watch their language, claiming that if they fail to do so they could “inflame” an already “incredibly febrile atmosphere”.

An arrest has been made in Edmonton after a fifth stabbing this week was reported in the area of North London earlier today.

The Metropolitan Police are hunting a 6’3″ black male suspect after four people were approached from behind and stabbed, seemingly at random, in the Edmonton area of London.

A teenage boy has been shot dead in London, just minutes after a man in his thirties was stabbed in the head elsewhere in the crime-stricken British capital.

A 20-year-old Croatian citizen has appeared in court for the knife murder of 17-year-old Jodie Chesney in Romford, London.

The Metropolitan Police have issued a description of the killer who stabbed a 17-year-old girl to death in Romford, London.

A teenager has died after he and another individual were attacked by a group armed with “at least one firearm, knives, and a samurai sword” in London.

Nine migration-background men have been sentenced for a brutal and unprovoked series of violent assaults involving corrosive substances, described as “homophobic” in the media.

Police in Sadiq Khan’s London are seeking two males after a young man was sexually assaulted in a public street.

James Goddard, the self-styled British Yellow Vest who caused outcry when he branded Remainer MP Anna Soubry a “Nazi”, has been arrested.

A London Metropolitan police officer could be charged with a criminal offence after ramming a criminal moped driver.

London’s Metropolitan Police are considering sending officers on patrol in gang-related residential areas, with their guns on show, amid the city’s on-going violent crime wave.

The Metropolitan Police Force which serves London is abandoning around one-third of all crime reports after a single phone call under the mayoralty of Sadiq Khan.

Police have hit back at Labour Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott after she attacked officers for knocking dangerous moped criminals off their bikes, accusing them of acting “above the law.”

A 17-year-old teen has been slain outside a busy London Underground station just hours after a 15-year-old boy was killed just yards from his home as London’s violent crime wave continues.

London Police have failed bring a successful prosecution for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), despite almost 750 reports of the grisly crime dealt with by the force in the past five years.

London Police have warned of dangerous motorbike and quad bike gangs setting off on huge Halloween “ride outs” to terrorise the capital’s population.

A 49-year-old man has suffered a fatal fall from his third-floor flat during an “aggravated burglary” in Kentish Town, London.

The Metropolitan Police leader who stayed in his car with the doors locked while a radical Islamic terrorist murdered PC Keith Palmer outside Parliament is in line for a pension 12 times larger than the slain officer’s widow, according to reports.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has defended her deputy after he was roundly condemned for staying in his car with the doors locked during the Westminster terror attack.

The Chairman of the Sussex Police Federation has called on Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner Sir Craig Mackey to resign and be stripped of his knighthood and Queen’s Police Medal.

Met boss Sir Craig Mackey is receiving a massive backlash from police veterans and serving officers for his decision to stay locked in his car and watch while PC Keith Palmer was murdered by a radical Islamic terrorist during the Westminster attack in 2017.

A Labour MP claimed to have reported Twitter user Stop the EU to parliamentary authorities and the police for criticising a Remain-supporting Tory MP — but the Speaker’s Office, the Metropolitan Police, and his local force all deny having received any such report.

The Acting Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police was present at the Westminster terror attack in 2017, but stayed in his car with the doors locked.

The brutal killing of Police Constable Keith Palmer in a terror attack at the Palace of Westminster March 2017 could have been prevented had it not been for the “shortcomings” of the Metropolitan Police’s security operation, the Coroner has concluded.

A new London police ‘Violent Crime Taskforce’ has had a busy debut few months, making a massive 1,350 arrests since the team was formed in April.

Three people were injured, two seriously enough to be taken to hospital, after they were struck by a car following an altercation outside a Mosque in northwest London in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

A senior Metropolitan Police officer could be sacked for alleged racism after telling colleagues they need to be “whiter than white” while carrying out inquiries.

UKIP London Assembly member Peter Whittle raked Britain’s top police officer Cressida Dick over the coals for her “mealy-mouthed” description of radical Islamic terrorists as “so-called Islamist-inspired”.

Armed criminals pulled up alongside a police van on a moped and aimed a gun at the officers in an attempt to free a suspected burglar detained in the back in Croydon, South London.

More than 130 people were arrested on the opening day of the London Notting Hill carnival, police said, reporting that knife-wielding thugs, drug dealers, and sex attackers had descended on its traditionally peaceful ‘family day’.

London police have secured extra stop and search powers and deployed knife detection arches and extra armed officers equipped with acid attack kits for the Notting Hill Carnival, as homes and shops in the area board up fearing damage.

Two men were arrested Tuesday night after a shooting near Rayners Lane station in London which saw two injured, with Britains’ capital city seeing a total of four shooting incidents in just two days. 

Police have welcomed the jailing of a drugs gang behind an “awful explosion” of Class A drugs in Whitechapel as an “incredible result” which will “severely disrupt the supply”.