Luke Alsford

Luke Alsford | News Reporter

Luke focuses on uncovering stories across politics, health, tech and beyond. He joined Metro in 2024 during his NCTJ training and continues to work there full time.

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Hot air balloon collides with power line Firefighters helped to give first aid and make the scene safe after a hot air balloon collided with power cables in Earls Colne this evening. Firefighters were called to a field near Newhouse Road, Earls Colne at 7pm after a hot air balloon had landed in a field after colliding with power lines. https://www.essex-fire.gov.uk/incidents/hot-air-balloon-collides-power-line-2025-04-10-18-58 Credit Essex County Fire and Rescue Service

Passenger electrocuted after hot air balloon crashes into power cables

Channel: UK UK January 11, 2026
Rubina Aminian, a 23-year-old student in Tehran shot at the back of the head

Fashion student, 23, shot in the head at close range during Iran protests

Channel: World World January 12, 2026
NUUK, GREENLAND - MARCH 15: Around 1,000 Greenlanders gather in the city center and march to the US consulate building located on the outskirts of the city to protesting US President Donald Trump's recent remarks on the sovereignty of their country, in Nuuk, Greenland on March 15, 2025. (Photo by Ahmet Gurhan Kartal /Anadolu via Getty Images)

Greenlanders 'left unable to sleep' over fears Donald Trump will invade them

Channel: World World January 8, 2026

'I've watched child abuse online - I fear age ID checks is leading others to do the same'

Channel: Tech Tech January 8, 2026
Patients sleep in beds lining a hospital corridor in overrun A&E department at William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, Kent, on December 11 2024. Release date December 16 2024. Shocking pictures capture the moment a great-grandmother with dementia was forced to sleep in a hospital corridor- likened to a "warzone." Louisa Gilbert, 89, was checked into an overrun A&E department at William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, Kent, after suffering a fall at home on Wednesday (December 11). The frail patient - who has dementia and terminal lung cancer - slept pushed up against a staff desk for more than two days, waiting for a space to become free on a ward. Nearby, beds filled with patients lined the emergency unit???s corridors in scenes likened to a ???warzone??? by worried relatives.

Corridor care has become so normal hospitals are fitting plug sockets in hallways

Channel: UK UK January 8, 2026
Image of the coach on the road alongside police cars.

Two school buses crash on UK roads as temperatures plummet

Channel: UK UK January 7, 2026
Evie Smith, 22, smiling in an image.

'See-through bikini loophole meant Grok AI generated images of my genitalia'

Channel: Tech Tech January 14, 2026
Cabinet member's horror at being undressed by AI online Getty Images

Two Cabinet ministers 'stripped to a bikini' by Grok AI

Channel: Politics Politics January 6, 2026
SMA baby formula products against yellow background.

Fears batches of baby formula may contain toxin that causes vomiting

Channel: UK UK January 6, 2026
A row of police officers in neon yellow Metropolitan police jackets and black hats.

Freemason police officers defend their membership of secretive lodges

Channel: UK UK January 6, 2026
Play Video A mock image showing Donald Trump with planes, a not for sale sign, and more in the background.

Why does Donald Trump want Greenland and could the US attack it?

Channel: US US January 19, 2026
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First picture of man charged with trying to break into JD Vance's home with hammer

Channel: US US January 5, 2026
(Left) Benjamin Johnson in a photo and (Right) a grab of the fire.

Boxer, 18, died trying to save friend from Constellation bar fire

Channel: World World January 5, 2026
Glowing unidentified objects in the night sky.

British military 'wanted to acquire UFO technology to protect Brits'

Channel: UK UK January 4, 2026

Train worker sacked for serving first-class passengers sausage rolls from a bin

Channel: UK UK January 4, 2026
Athens, Greece, May 20, 2025. Passenger aircraft parked at the terminal of Athens International Airport, ground crew and equipment upon the tarmac

Greece closes its airspace over mysterious noise frequency disrupts radio transmissions

Channel: World World January 4, 2026

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