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Yahoo
01-04-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Woman in critical condition after crossroads crash
A woman is in a critical condition after a serious crash. Emergency services were called to Kings Ripton, near Huntingdon, in Cambridgeshire, at 12.30 BST on Monday. Police said a silver Hyundai i10 and a red Toyota Aygo crashed at the crossroads joining Ramsey Road, Huntingdon Road and School Road. The driver of the Hyundai, a woman in her 80s, was taken to hospital with minor injuries and the driver of the Toyota, a woman in her 70s, was taken to hospital where she remains in a critical condition. Sgt Jamie Cooper, from the road policing unit, said: "We are appealing for witnesses to the collision or anyone who saw either vehicle in the moments leading up to it. "We would also like to hear from anyone who may have dashcam footage." Follow Cambridgeshire news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X. Cambridgeshire Constabulary
BBC News
01-04-2025
- BBC News
Woman in critical condition after Huntingdon crossroads crash
A woman is in a critical condition after a serious services were called to Kings Ripton, near Huntingdon, in Cambridgeshire, at 12.30 BST on Monday. Police said a silver Hyundai i10 and a red Toyota Aygo crashed at the crossroads joining Ramsey Road, Huntingdon Road and School Road. The driver of the Hyundai, a woman in her 80s, was taken to hospital with minor injuries and the driver of the Toyota, a woman in her 70s, was taken to hospital where she remains in a critical condition. Sgt Jamie Cooper, from the road policing unit, said: "We are appealing for witnesses to the collision or anyone who saw either vehicle in the moments leading up to it. "We would also like to hear from anyone who may have dashcam footage." Follow Cambridgeshire news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
Yahoo
22-03-2025
- Yahoo
Missing prisoner found after van motorway escape
A prisoner who faked a medical emergency and escaped from a prison van on his way to court has been found, police have said. Jamie Cooper was found in Blackburn, Lancashire on Saturday afternoon after a car which had travelled from Bolton was stopped by police. They have arrested the 33-year-old on suspicion of escaping from lawful custody. He was being taken to Lancaster Magistrates' Court in a GEOAmey van just before 09:00 GMT on Wednesday when he went on the run on the M55 motorway at junction 2 near Preston. Mr Cooper, originally from Blackpool, "overpowered" escort officers before making his escape, a GEOAmey spokesperson said. Lancashire Police said Mr Cooper, who was facing charges for assaulting a police officer and criminal damage, remains in police custody.
Forbes
21-03-2025
- Science
- Forbes
Where Did Brilliant Venus Go? The Science Behind Its Vanishing Act
UNSPECIFIED - JANUARY 30: This set of images taken from Northampton in May 2004 show Venus as a ... More slowly shrinking crescent. The images were taken with a 180-cm Maksutov-Newtonian telescope. Photograph by Jamie Cooper. (Photo) Every night for the last five months, a bright "star" has been blazing away in the western sky just after sunset. Now it's gone. What's going on? Venus has been slowly getting closer to the sun and will pass roughly between Earth and our star this weekend — something astronomers call "inferior conjunction." On Saturday, March 22, Venus will be completely lost in the sun's glare and impossible to observe — but it's going out with a bang. For the past month, Venus has been sinking lower to the horizon in the post-sunset western sky, appearing closer to the sun with each passing day and rapidly losing latitude — sunlight, from our point of view. As it has done so, the views of Venus have been spectacular, with some even seeing it as a 'rainbow planet.' Since it's an inner planet as seen from Earth (its orbit around the sun takes just 225 days, compared with Earth's 365 days), we've been seeing the phases of Venus as it approached Earth, and it is now undertaking it on the inside. For the last few months, it has become a crescent and, in recent weeks, has become a thin sliver. Something similar happened with the far dimmer Mercury, which was shining with Venus at the beginning of March. Both have now dropped from the night sky, ending the planet parade that caught the attention of many sky-watchers. From Earth's perspective, Venus — for so long earning its nickname the "Evening Star" — will pass into the sun's glare. In the weeks after, it will emerge into the pre-dawn eastern sky and shine brightly as the "Morning Star." It will quickly rise higher into the twilight. Here are a few highlights for Venus-gazing over the next few months: While Venus transits to the morning sky, only two naked-eye planets remain of the "planet parade" — Jupiter and Mars. These two outer planets, which lie farther from the sun than Earth so can't undertake us like Venus and Mercury, are called superior planets by astronomers. Now high in the southern sky after dark, as seen from the Northern hemisphere, Jupiter is in the constellation Taurus, and Mars is in Gemini. The latter will align perfectly with Gemini's two bright stars, Castor and Pollux, on April 10 The next planetary parade — this time featuring six planets, excluding Mars — will be seen before sunrise on August 29, 2025. The moment the inferior conjunction of Venus can, on rare occasions, mean we see it appear to pass across the disk of the sun. That's a transit of Venus, which last happened on June 5 to 6, 2012, and won't happen again until Dec. 10/11, 2117. According to The Planetary Society, the orbits of Venus and Earth are in an 8:13 resonance, so Venus appears to loop around the sun 13 times every eight years from Earth's point of view. Wishing you clear skies and wide eyes.
Yahoo
21-03-2025
- Yahoo
Sightings of escaped prisoner after van getaway
A prisoner who escaped from a prison van after faking a medical emergency on a motorway has been seen in three areas since he ran off. Jamie Cooper was on the way to court when he leapt from the back of a GEOAmey van that had pulled over at Junction 2 of the M55 near Catforth, Preston, shortly before 09:00 GMT on Wednesday, Lancashire Police said. The force said the last confirmed sighting of the 33-year-old, who is originally from Blackpool but has links to Bolton, Greater Manchester, was in the early hours of Thursday morning in Blackpool. Detectives said there had also been sightings of him in Preston and in Bolton on Wednesday afternoon and warned the public to not approach him. Anyone who has seen him is urged to call 999. Who is escaped prisoner and how did he get away? The latest image released by police showed Mr Cooper being escorted from police custody to the GEOAmey van before setting off to court. A spokesperson for GEOAmey said the prisoner had faked an "on-board medical emergency" and the van was forced to pull over to deal with the situation. "The detained person involved in this emergency then overpowered and evaded the escort officers and escaped from the vehicle," they said. Mr Cooper is about 5ft 7in tall (1.7m) and has a medium build with short, cropped hair. At the time he escaped he was wearing a blue coat, blue jeans and black trainers. He was due to appear before magistrates in Lancaster to face charges of assaulting a police officer and criminal damage. Listen to the best of BBC Radio Lancashire on Sounds and follow BBC Lancashire on Facebook, X and Instagram and watch BBC North West Tonight on BBC iPlayer. Who is escaped prisoner and how did he get away? Prisoner on the run after faking emergency on M55 Lancashire Police
