Tributes paid to two 'brave' police officers killed in UK car crash

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2026-08-23

London (PA Media/dpa) - Tributes have poured in for two "brave" police officers who died in a crash in north-eastern England that killed five others on Saturday morning. Matthew Blades, 37, and Tom Clough, 38, were killed when a Volkswagen Passat which was travelling the wrong way down the dual carriageway near Middlesbrough collided with their marked armed response vehicle that was going in the right direction. The families of the five people wh......

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