The M8 motorway has been closed as police search for an armed man. Specialist officers raced to the scene at the M8 today just before 9am today after they were alerted to reports of a man being ...

Picture: Denis Minihane A man has been arrested after a car was driven the wrong way on a section of the M8 motorway in Cork on Wednesday night. During the alleged incident of dangerous driving ...

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A man has been arrested after firearms incident led to the temporary closure of Scotland's biggest motorway. A police operation began after reports of a man with a gun on the slip road of the M8 ...

Anyone who was travelling between Junctions 9 and 17 on the M8 motorway from 9pm to 10pm on Wednesday night has been asked to contact An Garda Síochána. Anyone with information or video/ dashcam ...

Part of the M8 has been closed near a busy junction after a lorry caught on fire. Junction 2 on the motorway near Newbridge has been shut due to the incident. Emergency services are at the scene.

Police are appealing for information a firearm was found on the M8 in an incident that shut the motorway down. Officers were called to the scene on the slip road at junction 6 around 8.55am on ...

Armed police have swooped on a motorway after receiving reports of a man with a weapon on a slip road. Drivers are warned to avoid the M8 between Glasgow and Edinburgh as police look for the suspect.

A section of Scotland's busiest motorway has reopened after is was shut due to an emergency incident involving a lorry. The M8 has was closed off eastbound at Junction 2, near Newbridge, because of a ...