A 10-year-old boy has been arrested over an alleged attack on two women teachers.

The family of a retired teacher who was murdered at her isolated riverside cottage have appealed for information to help catch her killer.

Police have been given more time to question a male nurse arrested on suspicion of tampering with medical records at Stepping Hill Hospital.

Cheryl Carter is latest News International employee to be questioned in phone-hacking inquiry

Advances in forensic science could reinvigorate the inquiry into the death of Surjit Singh Chhokar who was stabbed to death by a white gang.

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Gillingham's FA Cup third-round match with Stoke tomorrow could be postponed on police advice, according to Medway Council.

An explosion ripped through a busy intersection in the Syrian capital today, hitting a bus carrying police and killing up to 25 people in what Syrian authorities said was the second suicide attack in as many weeks.

A male nurse arrested by detectives investigating the Stepping Hill Hospital poisonings was named by sources today as Victorino Chua.

A former personal assistant for Rebekah Brooks was arrested today by detectives investigating phone hacking at the News of the World.

The City of London Police was facing fresh questions over its approach to protest groups last night after it emerged that it regularly included them in communiques warning businesses in the City about extremist activity.

Gunmen opened fire on a church service in Nigeria yesterday, killing six people and wounding 10, the church's pastor said, the latest in a string of attacks that has raised fears of sectarian conflict in Africa's most populous nation.

Sorry. Forgot to tell you about the bumpy landing," said Zak, at the beginning of Eternal Law, Ashley Pharoah and Matthew Graham's otherworldly new drama, after he and a rookie colleague had plummeted to Earth in a Yorkshire cornfield. Tom, the new boy, had gone all Fotherington-Thomas for a spell, gazing fondly at the stars and stroking corn stalks and frogs. "This is beautiful! This isn't a world in trouble, it can't be," he said. Which is one of the things that screen angels are supposed to do, after all – to remind us that heaven can be found on Earth if we only know how to look properly. It's what Clarence did in It's a Wonderful Life, and what countless other cinematic angels have done since.

A serial killer is believed to be responsible for stabbing to death three homeless men in Southern California.