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Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli protesters gather outside Obama speech at Glasgow's Hydro
Rival demonstrations formed outside the Hydro in Glasgow on 14 October 2026, at an event the contributor says was a speech by Barack Obama. Palestinian flags and a Saltire fly above a long black banner strung along the barrier line, where a man in a keffiyeh leads chants through a megaphone. A second man wraps himself in an Israeli flag and holds it open in front of the same banner, face to face with a woman holding a microphone, and later raises the flag between himself and the crowd. Another frame shows a man shouting into a microphone with fists and phones raised behind him. A Police Scotland officer is pictured speaking to a man at the edge of the crowd as a phone is held up between them, with the lit BBC Scotland building across the water behind the protest.
Land Rover Discovery lands on its roof in residential Dogsthorpe street
A white Land Rover Discovery came to rest upside down in a residential road in Dogsthorpe, Peterborough, on the night of Sunday 4 October 2026, pictured at 9:57pm. The frames show the vehicle on its roof across the carriageway outside a row of semi-detached houses, wheels in the air, tail lights still lit and broken glass spread over the tarmac, with a door torn back and the interior exposed. Police in high-visibility jackets stand at the kerb and residents watch from the pavement a few feet away as blue lights wash across the fronts of the homes. A wider view down the road shows the street closed behind the wreck, a fire appliance and emergency vehicles drawn up and traffic stopped. The contributor says the Discovery had collided with a blue Audi TT, that the woman driving was alone in the car, and that nobody was severely injured.
Riot police deploy as student protest fills La Rochelle streets
Riot police were deployed in La Rochelle on the morning of 1 October 2026 as a student protest moved through the city centre. One frame shows a column of mostly young marchers packed across the width of a street beside the Rue Rambaud nameplate, held at a no-entry sign with a high-vis steward at the front. Another shows a single officer in a blue-banded helmet and body armour watching that crowd from behind a riot shield at the corner, with debris scattered on the road between the two. A further frame, taken at 11.06am, shows a squad of helmeted officers regrouping on a chequerboard-paved square away from the march, pale residue marking the slabs around them. The contributor, who says they were on holiday in the city, describes encountering violent rioters as students protested about their educational experiences.
Police close both carriageways of the A127 at Eastwood, Essex, after an accident
Police closed both sides of the A127 dual carriageway at Eastwood, Essex, after an accident on 16 September 2026. Pictures taken between 12:40pm and 1:10pm show the carriageway empty of traffic, with a marked police car, its blue lights on, stopped across a junction beside a line of traffic cones. Police tape is strung between bollards and railings along the pavement, with an officer in a high-visibility jacket standing at the cordon and a group of officers gathered by police vehicles further along the road. The contributor says police and paramedics shut the road and used the tape to stop people walking past. The contributor also describes what is assumed to be a body lying under a white sheet.
Major crash in Gloucestershire
At around midnight 12/09/26 I witnessed a major car crash at a double roundabout junction by Crickley Hill and the A417. A group of teenagers was speeding in an Audi and hit the side of an SUV who was going around the roundabout at the time behind me, flipping him over and trapping the driver. I was first to help make sure everyone was okay. The crash happened in an area that was undergoing roadworks, I got photos of the overturned car and footage of the Audi after the crash. I think Gloucestershire news outlets may be interested.
Fire tears through New Malden house as embers rain over neighbouring rooftops
Fire tore through a house on Mount Pleasant Road in New Malden on the evening of Saturday 22 August 2026, throwing showers of embers high above the surrounding rooftops. Pictures taken at 9.46pm show flames breaking through the roofline of the property while three onlookers stand in the road watching, and a fire engine on scene with its blue lights running and a hose run out across the carriageway. The contributor says neighbours and children were evacuated from their homes as firefighters tackled the blaze. They say the property is known locally for the quantity of items kept in its front garden and out onto the road and pavement, including old engines, car batteries left charging, live wires and unidentified car fluids, and that the fire brigade has been called to the same address for a major fire before. One resident watching in the street said: "It's not him again is it".
Van engulfed in flames at the side of the M1
A van burns out at the side of the M1, filmed at night from a passing car. The white panel van is stopped hard against the nearside barrier with its cab and front end fully alight, flames climbing well above roof height and lighting the trees on the embankment. It sits alongside a blue SOS sign marking an emergency area 300 yards ahead. No fire crews or police are on scene in either clip, and other traffic is still moving past. The contributor filmed it while driving past. He says it was a big fire and that he does not know what caused it. Two clips, 14 seconds and 3 seconds, filed to PressApp at 00.54 BST on Sunday 23 August 2026. The contributor has not given an exact time of filming or a junction number.
Field fire burns beside homes at Norton in Stourbridge as smoke drifts over housing estate
A large field fire burned beside a housing estate at Norton in Stourbridge, West Midlands, on 15 August 2026, sending a thick smoke plume drifting over homes. Aerial drone footage looks down on the burning field, the smoke crossing the rooftops and the scorched stubble left behind on a clear summer day. The camera holds on the fire for four minutes and twenty two seconds without a cut, covering it as it was left to burn. The contributor says the footage was shot before emergency services arrived.
Field fire burns at the edge of a Stourbridge housing estate at Norton
A grass and field fire burned along the edge of a housing estate at Norton in Stourbridge, West Midlands, on 15 August 2026. Drone footage looks down over the estate as the fire burns at its boundary, sending a broad plume of smoke across the treeline towards the homes. The fire front and the ground it has already burned are held in a single unbroken run of just over two minutes. The contributor says the footage was shot before emergency services arrived.
Aerial views of fire-destroyed houses and scorched fields at Norton, Stourbridge, on 15 August 2026
Detached houses burnt down to their brick shells beside blackened fields at Norton, Stourbridge, West Midlands, on 15 August 2026. Drone footage directly overhead and from lower oblique angles showing burnt-out houses standing immediately alongside homes that appear untouched, with hose lines still lying across paths and gardens and burnt ground reaching to garden fences and an emptied swimming pool. Sot on a DJI drone at a 7mm wide setting, which is what puts whole streets and the surrounding burnt fields in one picture.
Aerial views of fire-destroyed houses and scorched fields at Norton, Stourbridge, on 15 August 2026
Detached houses burnt down to their brick shells beside blackened fields at Norton, Stourbridge, West Midlands, on 15 August 2026. The set runs to 14 drone stills shot from directly overhead and from lower oblique angles, with 12 frames carrying GPS fixes that step eastwards across roughly six minutes of flying. The sequence moves from wide views of scorched arable land running up to a farm and to the edge of housing, in to close overhead frames of gutted properties with roofs gone, floors collapsed and rubble across the drives. Several frames show burnt-out houses standing immediately alongside homes that appear untouched, with hose lines still lying across paths and gardens and burnt ground reaching to garden fences and an emptied swimming pool. All frames were shot on a DJI drone at a 7mm wide setting, which is what puts whole streets and the surrounding burnt fields in one picture.