Manhunt After 'Axe And Gun Attack' In Cologne

Two suspects are on the run after an axe and gun attack in Cologne, Germany, left one person injured, according to reports.

Witnesses told police that a group of men fought each other with axes, according to the country's media.

A man who suffered a stab wound in the thigh tried to flee in his car but other men shot at him and hit the vehicle, said newspaper Express.

The windows had been shot out, it added.

The attack happened in the early hours of Monday in the city centre.

Call For 'Drive-Safe' Modes For Smartphones

Road safety experts have called for smartphones to be fitted with a "drive-safe" mode - similar to the flight-safe option - to help stop drivers being "distracted or overwhelmed with information" at the wheel.

The RAC Foundation claims that every year there are around 70 fatal accidents on Britain's roads caused by motorists being distracted, while "driving using mobile phone" is cited in around 20 crashes.

The motoring charity's director Steve Gooding said: "In many ways smartphone technology and mobile communications are a godsend for road users, allowing us to do everything from getting directions to dodging congestion to calling for help if we break down.

Plane Crashes Into Sea During Herne Bay Airshow

Spectators have rushed into the sea to help a pilot whose plane crashed into water during an airshow. 

The aircraft from a display team hit the water in front of thousands of people at the Herne Bay Airshow in Kent at around 3.30pm on Sunday.

The plane flipped and came to rest upside down around 20m from the shore, leaving the pilot struggling to get out of the partially submerged cockpit.

The plane comes in to land on water at Herne Bay. Pic: Nigel Hancock

Photographer Nigel Hancock watched as around a dozen onlookers rushed into the water to help the pilot.

He told Kent Online: "The display team was coming towards the end of its routine, and I saw a plane coming down low and slowly, beyond the parameters of its normal flight routines.

The aircraft ends up upside down in the water. Pic: Nigel Hancock

"I thought he was in trouble, so I took a series of shots of what happened. It looked to be a textbook forced landing.

"I saw about a dozen people going into the water which was very heroic, bearing in mind the pilot was underwater and struggling to get out.

Spectators rush into the sea from the beach to help. Pic: Nigel Hancock

"If they hadn't flipped the plane over quickly it could have been a lot worse. Due to their quick actions the pilot was relatively unharmed."

An area of the beach was cleared for a coastguard helicopter to land and an air ambulance was sent to the scene. The police and fire brigade also attended.

The pilot is helped from the plane. Pic: Nigel Hancock

It is understood the pilot from the Turbulent display team and some of the rescuers may have suffered minor injuries in the incident.

The display team tweeted on Sunday: "We are pleased to confirm our pilot is safe and the aircraft intact after a decision to ditch in the sea @baypromoteam due to a problem."

The plane is pulled out of the water. Pic: Nigel Hancock

The Maritime & Coastguard Agency said: "People watching the show made 999 calls to the UK Coastguard which immediately sent the Coastguard search and rescue helicopter based at Lydd."

The Air Accident Investigation Branch has been informed.

Safety at airshows was reviewed after the Shoreham Airshow disaster last year, when 11 people were killed and 16 injured by a Hawker Hunter aircraft, which crashed into the busy A27 in West Sussex.

Plane Crashes Into Sea During Herne Bay Airshow

Spectators have rushed into the sea to help a pilot whose plane crashed into water during an airshow. 

The aircraft from a display team hit the water in front of thousands of people at the Herne Bay Airshow in Kent at around 3.30pm on Sunday.

The plane flipped and came to rest upside down around 20m from the shore, leaving the pilot struggling to get out of the partially submerged cockpit.

The plane comes in to land on water at Herne Bay. Pic: Nigel Hancock

Photographer Nigel Hancock watched as around a dozen onlookers rushed into the water to help the pilot.

He told Kent Online: "The display team was coming towards the end of its routine, and I saw a plane coming down low and slowly, beyond the parameters of its normal flight routines.

The aircraft ends up upside down in the water. Pic: Nigel Hancock

"I thought he was in trouble, so I took a series of shots of what happened. It looked to be a textbook forced landing.

"I saw about a dozen people going into the water which was very heroic, bearing in mind the pilot was underwater and struggling to get out.

Spectators rush into the sea from the beach to help. Pic: Nigel Hancock

"If they hadn't flipped the plane over quickly it could have been a lot worse. Due to their quick actions the pilot was relatively unharmed."

An area of the beach was cleared for a coastguard helicopter to land and an air ambulance was sent to the scene. The police and fire brigade also attended.

The pilot is helped from the plane. Pic: Nigel Hancock

It is understood the pilot from the Turbulent display team and some of the rescuers may have suffered minor injuries in the incident.

The display team tweeted on Sunday: "We are pleased to confirm our pilot is safe and the aircraft intact after a decision to ditch in the sea @baypromoteam due to a problem."

The plane is pulled out of the water. Pic: Nigel Hancock

The Maritime & Coastguard Agency said: "People watching the show made 999 calls to the UK Coastguard which immediately sent the Coastguard search and rescue helicopter based at Lydd."

The Air Accident Investigation Branch has been informed.

Safety at airshows was reviewed after the Shoreham Airshow disaster last year, when 11 people were killed and 16 injured by a Hawker Hunter aircraft, which crashed into the busy A27 in West Sussex.

Harry Potter Fans Stupefied By £6,200 Ticket Costs For Cursed Child Play

Harry Potter fans may feel like they've been hit by the Petrificus Totalus spell when they discover just how much tickets for the sell-out Cursed Child play are going for online.

Tickets for the West End play are fetching thousands of pounds on resale websites.

The chance to see the Part Two alone of the play one night in March will set you back £6,221.38 on the Viagogo site. It has been reported the price previously topped more than £8,300.

Tickets on one resale website will set you back as much as £6,221.38 

And this isn't a one-off. You will be hard-pressed to find a ticket on the Viagogo and StubHub sites, among others, for less than £300.

Tickets bought via the official Harry Potter and the Cursed Child website cost a maximum of £140 for Parts One and Two combined.

In light of the vastly Engorgio-ed prices, the producers of the play have vowed to crack down on the secondary-ticket market, something they have described as an "industry-wide" plague.

They say any ticket not bought on official ticketing platforms will be considered void and ticket holders may be Azka-banned from going in to watch the play.

Around 60 bookings based on invalid tickets have so far been refused.

Producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender said: "The secondary-ticket market is an industry-wide plague, and one which we as producers take very seriously.

"Our priority is to protect all our customers and are doing all we can to combat this issue.

"From the outset accessible pricing has been of paramount importance to us.

Producers Sonia Friedman (L) and Colin Callender (R) at the press preview

"We have already been able to identify, and refuse entry to a significant number of people who purchased tickets through resale sites and will continue to track down touts and refuse entry to anyone who has knowingly bought a ticket from a tout through the secondary market."

Tickets for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child broke box office records when they originally went on sale to the public in October last year.

A further 250,000 tickets went on sale on 4 August and sold out on the day. 

But lucky Potter fans may be able to grab returned tickets and other late release tickets which go on sale via the official site.

The play runs at London's Palace Theatre until 10 December 2017.

Harry Potter Fans Stupefied By £6,200 Ticket Costs For Cursed Child Play

Harry Potter fans may feel like they've been hit by the Petrificus Totalus spell when they discover just how much tickets for the sell-out Cursed Child play are going for online.

Tickets for the West End play are fetching thousands of pounds on resale websites.

The chance to see the Part Two alone of the play one night in March will set you back £6,221.38 on the Viagogo site. It has been reported the price previously topped more than £8,300.

Tickets on one resale website will set you back as much as £6,221.38 

And this isn't a one-off. You will be hard-pressed to find a ticket on the Viagogo and StubHub sites, among others, for less than £300.

Tickets bought via the official Harry Potter and the Cursed Child website cost a maximum of £140 for Parts One and Two combined.

In light of the vastly Engorgio-ed prices, the producers of the play have vowed to crack down on the secondary-ticket market, something they have described as an "industry-wide" plague.

They say any ticket not bought on official ticketing platforms will be considered void and ticket holders may be Azka-banned from going in to watch the play.

Around 60 bookings based on invalid tickets have so far been refused.

Producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender said: "The secondary-ticket market is an industry-wide plague, and one which we as producers take very seriously.

"Our priority is to protect all our customers and are doing all we can to combat this issue.

"From the outset accessible pricing has been of paramount importance to us.

Producers Sonia Friedman (L) and Colin Callender (R) at the press preview

"We have already been able to identify, and refuse entry to a significant number of people who purchased tickets through resale sites and will continue to track down touts and refuse entry to anyone who has knowingly bought a ticket from a tout through the secondary market."

Tickets for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child broke box office records when they originally went on sale to the public in October last year.

A further 250,000 tickets went on sale on 4 August and sold out on the day. 

But lucky Potter fans may be able to grab returned tickets and other late release tickets which go on sale via the official site.

The play runs at London's Palace Theatre until 10 December 2017.

Hate Crime Trolls To Be Targeted By Cyber Police Squad

A specialist police squad is being set up to target trolls who commit online hate crimes.

The dedicated team of officers will provide support to victims as well as identify offenders.

The move comes amid heightened concerns over online abuse in the wake of the Brexit vote and during the Labour leadership election.

The Online Hate Crime Hub will identify the location of crimes and allocate them to the appropriate force.

The move comes in response to a consultation by the London Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) that identified the growing problem of online hate crime.

While it had the potential to impact on a larger number of people, social media provided offenders with a veil of anonymity, making them harder to catch, the consultation found.

It also said the police response to online hate crime was inconsistent, mainly because officers were not equipped to tackle it.

The issue of online abuse has been brought into sharp focus after a series of high-profile cases.

Back in 2014, a man was jailed for sending a barrage of abusive messages to Labour MP Stella Creasy, including threats to rape her.

Activist Caroline Criado-Perez also received threats of sexual violence during a campaign to feature Jane Austen on the new £10 banknote.

More recently, there has been complaints over online abuse by Labour activists during the party's leadership election.

More than 40 women Labour MPs wrote to Jeremy Corbyn calling on him to do more to tackle abuse, which they said was "being done in your name".

MP Jess Phillips, who represents Birmingham Yardley, said last month she had been forced to tighten the security at her home after a picture was mocked up of her dying.

A sharp rise in online racial abuse was also reported in the wake of the Brexit vote.