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Not often that you find Jeremy Corbyn sharing a post with Christmas cards, art, pavement thieves and bumbling PCs.

A report in the Standard suggests British Transport Police are starting a three month pilot scheme of issuing Tasers to BTP’s special response teams. The 50,000 volt stun guns have previously only been used in London by the TSG and the Met’s firearms units. We …

Police stormed Le Cordon Bleu cookery school in Marylebone yesterday evening following a stand off with a knife wielding student threatening to kill himself unless he was allowed to retake the intermediate course exam he had failed. The distressed chef, who’d apparently spent all of …

The Taser may have turned a Flordia student into an unwitting celebrity earlier in the year, but on the streets of London it’s a serious business. As we reported a few weeks ago, the Met has recently increased Taser deployment for a trial period. Barely …