A6 in Stockport closed as police deal with "serious road traffic collision"

New images offer the first glimpse of how a proposed 18-storey tower block in Stockport town centre could look.Proposals for a 12-floor building on a car park opposite Regent House - between Piccadilly and Fletcher Street - were tabled last year.But Saudi developer Eamar - which owns Stockport Pyramid - has fresh plans for a new mixed-use scheme boasting 98 apartments and two ground floor retail units.The revised proposals feature a five-storey block at the base of the building as well as a

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefHong Kong police arrested prominent pro-democracy campaigner and newspaper mogul Jimmy Lai on Monday morning on charges of colluding with foreign forces, an offence under the new National Security Law.Later in the morning, more than 100 police officers raided the offices of Lai’s Next Media, publisher of the Apple Daily newspaper.

Police and paramedics raced to the scene in Carntyne after being alerted at 3.40am and the victim was taken to the city’s Royal Infirmary for treatment. Part of Edinburgh Road was cordoned off on Sunday afternoon as forensic officers pored over the area.Pictures from the scene show a forensic officer picking up a piece of bloodstained clothing from the pavement which was covered in patches of blood.Police Scotland are urging anyone with information to come forward.

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterA busy Kilmarnock town centre road is closed tonight as police deal with heavy flooding.West Shaw Street, next to Tesco Extra, which leads on to McLelland Drive is sealed off as emergency services respond to the river overflowing.Eyewitnesses say there is a large hose in place which they believe will be pumping water from the road.Motorists are being turned around by police and led away from the

Jordan Moreau More than 150 people in Rhode Island accidentally received tax refund checks signed by none other than Mickey Mouse and Walt Disney, rather than their state officials.According to CNN, the misprinted signatures were on 176 tax refund checks. The error was the result of a technical glitch in the printing system for the state’s Division of Taxation.

Stockport town centre. Police were called to reports of a fight on St Petersgate at around 1.05am on Saturday (1 August).

Rhode Island’s Division of Taxation turned into a literal Mickey Mouse outfit this week when 176 refund checks were accidentally mailed out bearing the cartoon character’s “signature.”The checks, mailed Monday, were signed “Mickey Mouse” where General Treasurer Seth Magaziner’s name belonged, and “Walt Disney” in the spot reserved for State Controller Peter Keenan, according to multiple reports.The “test signatures” were mistakenly misprinted on the checks due to a “technical error” in the

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerThe Rhode Island Dept. of the Treasury is evidently a Mickey Mouse operation.A resident of the state received a sales tax refund this week, but noticed that the names of General Treasurer Seth Magaziner and State Controller Peter Keenan had been substituted.

An eight-year-old boy is in a life-threatening condition after a road traffic collision tonight.A Greater Manchester Police statement read: "At around 8.16pm  on Thursday 23 July 2020, police were called to Ryecroft Close Ashton-Under-Lyne to reports of a collision involving a car and a pedestrian."The pedestrian – an 8-year-old boy – has been taken to hospital in a life threatening condition. Officers are supporting his family at this difficult time."There is currently a scene in place on

missing man in Edinburgh has sparked a major police investigation. Nikhil Sharma was last seen at around 8.30am on Tuesday, July 21 in the Fort Kinnaird area of the city.

"During the disturbance, a car involved in the investigation was driven at one male officer. The constable, aged 36, was taken to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries.

Police in West Lothian are appealing for information following a serious road crash in Whitburn.The incident happened around 1.20pm on Friday, 17 July, 2020 on the B7066 Polkemmet Road, Whitburn, involving a black Subaru Impreza and an Audi Q2.As a result of the collision, a 59-year-old man was taken to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital with serious injuries.

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterPolice are dealing with an incident in Kilmarnock this evening.Officers are at a property on Campbelltown Drive, just off of Western Road, where there was a disturbance outside.Full details of the incident are yet to be established as police are making enquiries in the area.A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “Around 5.35pm on Thursday, 16 July, officers were called to the Cambeltown Drive area of