A woman was stopped from plummeting to her death from a cliff by a quick-thinking police officer who managed to grab her by her hair just in time.

PC Jeanette Cadden was holding a beat surgery on Saturday evening when she spotted the woman apparently attempting to kill herself in the Avon Gorge, Bristol (pictured).

The woman had climbed over the fence and was on the cliff edge when PC Cadden managed to grab her hair and stop her falling hundreds of feet.

Surrounded by ‘microbial cloud’

Every one of us is surrounded by a “microbial cloud” containing millions of bugs which is almost as personal as a fingerprint, research has shown.

Scientists were able to identify individuals from a group of volunteers just by sampling germs from the air around them.

Each cloud had a “signature” that could be read by carrying out genetic analysis of the bacteria, the study led by the University of Oregon in the United States found.

‘Ginger extremist’ found guilty

A “ginger extremist” who fantasised about shooting Prince Charles so Harry could be king has been found guilty of plotting a terror attack “for the Aryan people”.

Mark Colborne, 37, likened himself to Norwegian far-right terrorist Anders Breivik and made notes in his diary of his plan to assassinate the royal heir with a high-powered sniper rifle.

Colborne was caught after his half-brother uncovered papers detailing his racial hatred stashed in his bedroom at the family home in Southampton, and was found guilty of preparing terrorist acts following a retrial at the Old Bailey.

Shotgun robber having ‘bad day’

Police say a shotgun-wielding robber told a south-western Pennsylvania pizza shop clerk he was having a “bad day”.

State police say the man entered the Fox’s Pizza shop in Hibbs carrying the gun and a camouflage bag. Police say the man demanded cash and at one point told the female clerk she wasn’t moving fast enough and had 10 seconds before he grabbed the money and ran away.

The clerk wasn’t hurt. The robber also had a camouflage jacket, trousers, mask and black gloves. The shop is in German Township, Fayette County – about 40 miles south of Pittsburgh.

Drunken man was buried alive

Road construction workers in central India killed a man when they accidentally buried him in a pit while repairing a road, police said.

The road repair crew failed to notice that a drunken man had fallen into a crater on the side of the road in Sleemanabad, a village in Madhya Pradesh state. Working in the evening, the workers dumped gravel and an asphalt mixture into the pit, burying the man, before using a large roller to smooth the road, said Constable Dhruvsingh Thakur.

The death was discovered when villagers noticed that part of the man’s hand was visible in the road and police dug out his body on Monday. Two workers from the road repair crew were arrested and have been charged with homicide.

Winery raider wore Elvis wig

Grover Beach police are searching for a man accused of robbing the Monarch Grover Winery tasting room while wearing a mask and an Elvis wig.

Reports say that the man took about $400 in cash on Sunday. They say he showed a black semi-automatic pistol to a tasting room employee before binding the employee’s wrists with duct tape and confining the victim in a bathroom.

Police say the robber wore an old man mask and a wig and was last seen walking south on Highway 1.