The person arrested in France is believed to have been one of eight heavily armed robbers, disguised as police, who sped onto the tarmac of the Brussels Airport on Feb. 18 in two vehicles equipped with blue flashing lights.

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And then a police van came screaming down on us, blue lights flashing, horn honking.

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The cars pursued him with flashing blue lights after officers spotted a defective rear light.

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Middle-class Muscovites moan that officials in their black luxury cars, with their flashing blue lights, push them off the road and occasionally run them over.

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Well, inside five minutes 6 police cars arrive, sirens wailing and blue lights flashing and an armed response team crash through the front door-to find our burglar, safe and sound, who they duly arrest.

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Mr Ferguson, of West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service, who has an unblemished record of over 30 years' service, was in an official vehicle with blue lights flashing when he was spotted by police on the A1 in Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire.

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For a few minutes, red and blue lights make flashing patterns on my ceiling, then all is quiet and dark on Westerbury Road.

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Cool under flashing green and blue lights and loud buzzers, an adventurer named Calvin prepares to pilot the submarine Alvin down to search the ocean floor.

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So the shelves remained packed with gaudy shrine paraphernalia, from portraits of Christ with a halo of flashing green, yellow and blue fairy lights, to depictions of the Last Supper illuminated with almost psychedelic colours.

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