1.   And that, say police, is the reason why so many cyclists are hit on the roads.

2.   IRA bombers were probably responsible for two nights of blasts on Tyneside at a gas depot and Esso oil terminal say Northumbria police.

3.   It was so good it was attracting outsider drug buyers from North Wales, Cheshire and Cumbria, say police.

4.   It is Eighth Avenue itself that has become the most sex-saturated street in the city, say police, business people and leaders of community groups.

5.   The biggest obstacle to prosecuting pimps, say police and prosecutors, is the general refusal of prostitutes to testify against them.

6.   The bottom line, say police and prosecutors, is trust.

7.   Most prostitutes are in the trade voluntarily, and many are from Russia and Ukraine, say police.

8.   She and young men around her say police beat some men and turned their houses upside down after the shooting in a vain search for weapons.

9.   That could bring big trouble, say police and the gangsters targeted by the vigilantes.