Unite will not nominate either candidate in Labour’s deputy leadership election, the union has announced. Unite said neither Bridget Phillipson nor Lucy Powell represented the change required within ...

Valentina Locci said no sentence would be enough for the ‘callous, vicious, cold-blooded’ killing of her 15-year-old son.

Sexual offences account for a growing proportion of cases with the longest delays in crown courts in England and Wales, figures show. Nearly one in five (18%) backlog cases that had been open for at ...

Bryan Warrington, 36, died at Darent Valley hospital on September 12 after being transported in a police van to a custody suite.

One of Britain’s busiest magistrates’ courts is closed because it has no water. Security staff shut the doors of Westminster Magistrates’ Court due to a burst water main in a nearby street. Manchester ...

The US coffee chain has launched a consultation over the proposed closures, putting jobs at risk, but has not revealed how many stores may be shut.

Tolls on Bristol’s historic Clifton Suspension Bridge are set to rise for the first time in a decade. The trust which runs the bridge says the hike from £1 to £1.50 per crossing is required because of ...

A policing day of action has taken place across Worcestershire including Kidderminster, Redditch and Bromsgrove. Twelve Special Constables joined teams across West Mercia in support of the Employee ...

The taxi driver who took Axel Rudakubana to the scene of the Southport attack said he believed there was a gunman and he could be a target, as he explained why he drove away despite seeing children ...

He was convicted of criminal association in a plot from 2005-2007 to finance his campaign with funds from Libya in exchange ...

A 68-year-old man armed himself with a 12-inch kitchen knife and laid in wait at a cemetery before stabbing his ex-wife to death at the graveside of their son, a court has heard.

Russian warships are increasingly transiting through the English Channel,” defence minister Luke Pollard warned.