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The footage, filmed by lorry driver Alan Crosby, shows a Metropolitan Police vehicle standing up to a blue van as tries to barge into a slip road in Bow, East London, moments before the road split. The 51-year-old said the video shows cringe-worthy scenes between the police van and the Courier Network Systems vehicle. Officers appear to dish out a few words of advice to the hopeful queue jumper, before forcing them to miss the junction and continue on in the lane they were originally in. However Courier Network Systems hit back at the tactics and said that the vehicle was carrying patient medication that had a limited lifespan.

Former Deutsche Bank derivatives expert Guy Mitchinson, 38, (right) is accused of subjecting ex-Merrill Lynch trader Alicia Vidler, 37, (left), to three assaults over a seven-month period. On one occasion Mitchinson allegedly beat her with a pillow as she rested at their mansion (inset) and also shattered a glass over her head, Isleworth Crown Court heard. Describing one of the attacks Ms Vidler told a jury: 'He smashed a glass on my head and it smashed everywhere, it was the crown of my head and there was glass in my hair and I could feel blood on my head'. Her husband denies three counts of assault and a count of controlling or coercive behaviour.

Jeweller Elizabeth Hart-Browne, 27, pictured right, broke down in tears at the Old Bailey in London as she was cleared of murdering her violent boyfriend Stephen Rayner, pictured left. The mother-of-two stabbed Mr Rayner, 25, three times with a kitchen knife after drinking at a party on the night of 17 September last year. The six-week trial heard she 'feared for her life' after he bit her face and 'waterboarded' her in the bath.

The bungling left-winger committed another toe-curling gaffe as he held a 'rally' with a handful of supporters in Harlow.The event had been set up in a local park so that the Labour leader could opine on the government's failure to build enough houses with a backdrop of adoring supporters waving placards. But Mr Corbyn appeared bemused as he was led across the grass, and on being handed the microphone he started speaking while facing away from the cameraman. The ludicrous situation was only remedied when a desperate aide leapt into shot and pulled him round to address the TV crew,

Student Damon Smith (centre) allegedly left the device on a Jubilee line train at North Greenwich station in South East London before heading to his morning lecture. Smith, 20, who has Asperger's syndrome, was obsessed with weapons and had pictures of Islamic State fighters on his computer, the Old Bailey was told. He allegedly stood in front of the TV to take a photo of himself with Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the Islamic terrorist killed in a raid after the Paris attacks in 2015. Smith, of Bermondsey, claims the device he planted was only a smoke bomb - and he used ball bearings just to make it look 'real' for a prank. Images of the device were shown to jurors, revealing a battery and a wall clock with a nail driven through the clock face at number two (bottom right). The minute hand would come into contact at the 'ten past' position and complete the electrical circuit. The initiator - the component designed to set off the main charge - comprised a modified fairy light (top right) with the glass bulb broken coated with the accelerant power from matches. The main charge was made up of 152.8g of the explosive material found in sparklers contained in a silver metal flask (left). A pound of ball bearings had been stuck to the device using PVA glue.

Claire Saywell, 42, was relaxing at the four-star Club Hotel Dolphin resort in Sri Lanka (right) with her husband David (pictured together left) when a 50ft tree fell across her sun-bed, shattering her legs. Commercial insurance broker Mrs Saywell, from Sittingbourne, Kent, feared she may have been left disabled as three men struggled to lift the tree off her.

1966 World Cup hat-trick hero Sir Geoff Hurst and goalkeeper Gordon Banks (pictured inset today) say Martin Peters (circled front), Nobby Stiles (circled second from left, back row) and Ray Wilson (circled far right, back) have dementia and it has robbed them of their most precious memories. Pictured: The England Team pose with the Jules Rimet Trophy after winning the World Cup against West Germany at Wembley. Top row left to right: trainer Harold Shepherdson, Nobby Stiles, Roger Hunt, Gordon Banks, Jack Charlton, George Cohen, Ray Wilson, Manager Alf Ramsey, and bottom row, Martin Peters, Geoff Hurst, Bobby Moore, Alan Ball and Bobby Charlton.

A jury found Trimaan 'Harry' Dhillon (inset) guilty of the brutal attack on Alice Ruggles (main picture) at her home in Gateshead, which came after a campaign of harassment and stalking. Dhillon was described as an 'obsessive, jealous and manipulative' ex-boyfriend, who made the last weeks of Ms Ruggles' life a misery. But questions have been raised over Northumbria Police's response to Miss Ruggles's reports about Dhillon in the days leading up to her death. Yesterday Miss Ruggles' mother Dr Susan Hills (left) said: 'I've been living through an endless nightmare. I've failed Alice as a mother. All I want to do is hide away and give up on life.'

Phillip Gale (left), 50, said he stabbed Andrew Smith (right) in self-defence when he would not leave his home in Foulridge, Lancashire. Mr Smith, a drug user with a record for violence, had become close to Gale's wife Jayne Masters (inset) and the pair had stayed up late into the night, drinking and taking cocaine, Preston Crown Court heard. Mr Gale said: 'I didn't intend on stabbing him. I didn't intend on causing him any harm.' He denied attempted murder, GBH and wounding and a jury took three hours to clear him on all charges.

Melissa Pesticcio, 23, is said to have pursued her ex-boyfriend's latest partner Sophie Taylor, 22, through busy streets until the late-night car crash ended in tragedy. Cardiff Crown Court heard Pesticcio and former boyfriend Michael Wheeler, 22, drove separate cars as they chased call centre worker Sophie (pictured right) on the three-mile pursuit. Prosecutor Matthew Cobbe said there was a 'period of hostility' between the two women due to their relationships with Wheeler (shown inset). Miss Taylor and her friend Joshua Deguara, 21, went to Wheeler's house to demand money she gave him for a motorbike, but the feud spilled over into a car chase through the busy streets as both Wheeler and Pesticcio (pictured outside court today, left) gave chase through Adamsdown, Cardiff. Pesticcio, of Llanrumney, Cardiff, denies causing death by dangerous driving, causing serious injury by dangerous driving and two charges of dangerous driving.

Photographer Joe Newman has pictured London from a normally unseen perspective away from the iconic skyline and focused on unique and unusual social housing in the capital. The stunning pictures include the 520-apartment brutalist Alexandra Estate (top) in Camden, North London. Designed in 1968 by architect Neave Brown and built in 1978, the estate was used in films and music videos. Also pictured is the Southmere Estate (bottom left) in Thamesmead, South East London. Its compelling architecture has attracted film and TV productions such as Clockwork Orange and Misfits. The Brownfield estate (bottom centre) in Poplar is a stark Brutalist structure that looks out over parts of East London while Southwyck House on the Somerleyton Estate (bottom right) in Brixton, South London, has a unique architecture which was designed to deflect noise and fumes due to a proposed motorway project.

Hundreds of holidaymakers were hit with £33,000 worth of parking fines after valeting firms moved their cars to council pay-and-display spaces. Travellers paid up to £150 a week for parking workers to leave their motors in a secure space while they jetted off from Heathrow Airport over the Easter weekend. But horrified drivers returned to find that they had been hit with £60 of fines (left and right) - a penalty which rises to £120 if not paid within a month. Shocked resident Sarah Harvey visited Yiewsley council car park and shared photos of BMWs, Mercedes and 4x4s with as many as five £60 fixed penalty notices attached to windscreens. 'I looked inside a few cars and saw some tickets on the seat that clearly say Terminal 2,' she wrote (inset). 'It looks like people are being ripped off by the airport parking.'

The Yorkshire village of West Heslerton, which has been left untouched for the past 50 years, was put on sale to carry on the legacy of a 'vibrant' community. It was put on the market in April last year, and boasted its very own 21-bedroom mansion, 43 houses and 2,116 acres of surrounding land. Norfolk-based real estate and farming investment firm Albanwise Ltd has announced its purchase of the picturesque village for an 'undisclosed' fee.

North Korea's large-scale military parades and weapons displays are intended for propaganda purposes since the arms carried by the troops are largely fake, according to a US military expert. A former US Army intelligence officer who was asked to look at photographs from an April 15 military parade in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. The former officer, Michael Pregent, said he believes that many of the arms flaunted by menacing-looking North Korean troops (like the RPGs seen above) during the parade are dummies. Even the sunglasses worn by the 'commandos' (inset) aren't combat-ready, according to Pregent.

A series of portrait photographs taken of Syrian children as young as six reveals the horrors of the country's civil war - which has already claimed 321,358 lives, including 17,411 children. The shots - which include a boy whose legs were blown off in Idlib and a girl whose face was severely scarred by a barrel bomb in Aleppo - were taken in Gaziantep, Turkey.

Kim Jong-Un's North Korean army fired massive rockets and torpedoes during the country's 'largest ever' live-fire artillery drills. Hundreds of tanks were lined up along the eastern coastal town of Wonsan (bottom right) in a show of military strength celebrating 85 years since the North Korean army was created. Kim Jong Un saluted his army (jnset) as he watched the exercises on Tuesday, which involved the firing of more than 300 large-calibre artillery pieces and missiles (bottom left) and included submarine torpedo-attacks on mock enemy warships (top right) - causing huge explosions.