Armed officers were deployed to a reports of a man with a gun at a house on a busy street in Corringham, Essex. He refused to leave his home, and this led to a two-hour stand-off with police before he could be persuaded to exit and was arrested on suspicion of possessing a firearm. His teenager daughter was reportedly in the property at the time of the incident.

A 17-year-old male has been arrested and charged with possessing a firearm which he is said to have used to threaten his victims during a car jacking in Dudley and the robbery of a store in Great Barr, West Midlands. He and two other young males have been charged with two counts of robbery in relation to the armed incidents.

Two men armed with hammers and what appeared to be a handgun have stolen nearly £100,000 worth of branded watches from a jewellers in Blackburn, Lancashire. One of the robbers threatened staff with the gun while the other broke into displays with a hammer before they escaped on foot. No one was injured and no arrests have been made.

Two men and a woman have been arrested and charged with charged with conspiring to import £400,000 worth of cocaine from Jamaica through the airport in Gatwick, West Sussex. The woman allegedly worked with a baggage handler in an attempt to smuggle the drugs in her luggage, from which they were removed by her accomplice while she was in transit. The trio was arrested after police bugged the car of the second man who was also charged with possession of a stun gun and was thought to have been responsible for planning the operation.

A group of men carrying guns was reported to have vandalised a car and the window of the house outside which it was parked in Dundee. They left the scene in the vehicle in which they had arrived but three hours later two men allegedly carrying weapons were again seen outside the property before they drove off in a different vehicle. Police reported that the incident is believed to be linked to a dispute over drugs and that no arrests had yet been made.

Tomasz Witczak has been jailed for six months after pleading guilty to possessing an imitation firearm in a wooded area in Harlow, Essex. He was seen by a man who came across him holding what appeared to be a handgun while drinking with three others, and the witness called armed police to the area. When Witczak was located he threw a bag containing the broken gas-powered air pistol loaded with ball bearings into some bushes from which it was recovered by officers.

Liam Dunleavy has been jailed for four years for hiding 18 nine millimetre bullets for a submachine gun and nine expanding .38 bullets intended to cause “maximum harm” in a wardrobe at his flat in Liverpool, Merseyside. When police recovered the ammunition Dunleavy was still on license after his release from prison for dealing crack cocaine and heroin.

A 15-year-old boy has pleaded guilty to using an imitation firearm in the planned robbery of a bank in Liverpool, Merseyside. The "model pupil" covered his face and threatened two cashiers and a customer with the BB gun, demanding cash and intimating that he was an experienced criminal. He escaped with over £2000 in cash, leaving the victims shaken but unhurt, but one of the bank employees had put a dye kit in with the money and it was rendered unusable. When the gun and stained cash were found by the teenager's mother in his bedroom, the boy turned himself into police claiming to have carried out the raid in order to buy possessions that his fellow student had and of which he was jealous.

An inquest into the murder of a Andrea Johnson who was shot by her husband who also fatally shot himself with his own legally-owned shotgun at their home in Cromer, Norfolk has found that the 44-year-old was unlawfully killed and that her husband took his own life. The 58-year-old Conservative council leader and former mayor had made his wife leave the previous day but asked her to come back to the home where he was waiting with the gun and had written out instructions for their funerals. The Domestic Violence Homicide Review published after the inquest detailed how Keith Johnson had abused his wife for a decade, hitting her so hard at one point that her hearing was damaged. The report suggested that public authorities who could have helped the victim were "blinded by his public image" and by the notion that domestic violence did not happen in affluent areas. It also found that health and social service workers had not received sufficient training to identify, enquire about and communicate abuse as illustrated by the fact that an attempt to commit suicide with an overdose of anti-depressants and alcohol because of marital problems was not communicated to her GP; a series of counselling sessions she received were not recorded in her medical notes; her husband was present at many of her GP appointments; when she called police for help they left when her husband said he would sort it out; and the fact that her relatives did not know how to report the domestic violence.

A man has been charged with possessing MDMA and £20,000 worth of cocaine with intent to supply, and possessing a shotgun without a certificate, a firearm less than 30cm long, a taser, and an imitation firearm at a property in Oxford. The drugs and weapons were all recovered during a police raid at the address.