Trade unionists, anti-capitalists and public sector cuts protesters are set to stage a series of rallies across the UK to mark May Day. Leaders of...

Whether it is pagan rituals at Wiltshire stone circles or employment rights marches in Taiwan, May Day has different meanings for different countries ...

Detectives are investigating after suspected human remains were found near a railway line. A skull and other bones were discovered by workers clear...

Hundreds of people have braved the weather to welcome the Queen to the south west of England . Accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen arri...

Calamitous crime is nothing new but Londoner Tazviona Bhebe took the art to a whole new level as he attempted to rob his local cornershop with only a ...

A man killed when his car was swept away crossing a flooded ford has been named by police. Jonathan Gammon, 52, from Kingston Lane, Teddington, Mid...

Two friends who died within twelve hours of each other after allegedly taking the legal drug GBL have been named by police. Carl Fearon, 24, and Ly...

The coroner investigating the death of MI6 spy Gareth Williams is to rule out unlawful killing as the cause of his death today. Dr Fiona Wilcox wil...

Gareth Williams crammed his life with secrets - in and out of work. The 31-year-old excelled as a spy, producing "world-class" code-breaking intell...

The Gareth Williams inquest provided a rare insight into the highly secretive world of Britain's national security agencies. The picture of life wo...

The coroner overseeing the inquest into the death of MI6 spy Gareth Williams has said that it is "unlikely" that his mysterious death will ever be sol...

Leaders at defence company BAE Systems were accused of not doing enough to save UK jobs at a factory threatened by redundancies on Wednesday. Hundr...

Europe's human rights judges will meet next week to consider whether Jordanian terror suspect Abu Qatada's appeal should be heard by the court's Grand...

The claims by a Portuguese taxi driver who said police ignored the possibility he may have had Madeleine McCann in his cab the night she went missing ...

A number of parties came under fire as the coroner overseeing the inquest into the death of spy Gareth Williams delivered her verdict. Dr Fiona Wil...

A bid from one the world's largest food companies is set to see control of the British brand Weetabix transferred to a Chinese company. Shanghai fi...

American student Daniel Chong, 23, is to sue the Drugs Enforcement Administration (DEA) for $20m after being mistakenly left in a cell for five days. ...

The mother of an eight-year-old boy who fell into a swollen river has vowed never to stop looking for him. Ian Bell was playing with friends near h...

The UK Border Agency missed its April targets for passport checks at Heathrow Airport, falling short at each terminal, according to BAA. The figure...

Police today named the man killed in a motorway pile up involving five vehicles. Steven Cracknell, 22, died when two lorries, two vans and a car we...

The Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) website has been taken temporarily offline after a distributed denial of service attack by computer hackers,...

Weetabix, one of the all-time classic British cereals, has been taken over by the Chinese company Bright Foods, it emerged today. It may be a Brig...

The disappearance of a teenage mother and her newborn son has prompted an appeal for information from police. Jasmine Woodbridge, 16, gave birth to...

A rogue locksmith has been ordered to pay £700,000 following a five-year investigation into his criminal operation. Mark Makowski, the former dire...

Something has gone "seriously wrong", a council chief admitted after an elderly woman suffering from Alzheimer's was left locked in a minibus overnigh...