Drivers using a motorway had a lucky escape when a car transporter lorry flipped over leaving wrecked vehicles dotted across the carriageway. One o...
The wife of a jailed drugs baron who "turned a blind eye" to his activities has failed in a High Court bid to stop the matrimonial home being sold to ...
Young people have a huge amount at stake when it comes to policing and criminal justice issues and until we effectively bring them into the debate many of the issues we currently see will remain.
David Cameron's former spin doctor Andy Coulson and ex-News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks will be charged as part of the investigation ...
The Metropolitan Police is planning to cut 3,500 civilian roles and 1,200 posts of the rank of sergeant and above. The force is proposing the move ...
Updated: 16:38 19/11/12 - details of sentencing A man who mistakenly handed bags of cocaine instead of sweets to a police officer's children out tr...
If in 2016 England and Wales still has police and crime commissioners the government of the day must learn lessons from PCC 2012. The ultimate aim of an election must be to increase participation and debate.
A hitman accused of pulling the trigger in the murder of newlywed Anni Dewani during her South African honeymoon has been convicted of murder. Pros...
Children under 13 have been arrested on rape charges across 24 police forces in the past year – and one children’s charity is blaming the alarming...
Police have released a CCTV image of a retired lecturer captured the day before his body was found in a suspicious fire at his bungalow. Christophe...
An entire south London neighbourhood policing team has been axed after an internal investigation found some of the officers had been playing backgammo...
John Prescott’s campaign have spoken of the “irony” of the Conservative candidate beating the Labour heavyweight with a voting system opposed by...
In spite of winning three of the four local authorities - Hull, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire - that make up the Humberside Police area and winning the popular vote via Fast Past the Post, John Prescott lost on second preferences, thanks to the supplementary vote system. Oh the irony of the Tories beating a Labour heavyweight with a form of PR that they actively campaigned against in the AV Referendum.
Polling stations across the country have seen embarrassingly low turnouts in the elections for police and crime commissioners, while some people who m...
The sister of honour killing victim Shafilea Ahmed has been spared jail and given a 12-month suspended sentence for organising a robbery at her parent...
The anti-war campaigner who burst into Tony Blair's appearance at the Leveson inquiry is to appear in court on Friday charged with threatening or abus...
Labour have described the the police and crime commissioner elections as having descended in to a shambles, with turnout was expected to be as low as ...
The Government's handling of the first elections to the post of police and crime commissioner was branded a "comedy of errors" as voters went to the p...
The bottom line seems to be that the election could have been improved if more was spent on running it. Understandably, the government will be keen to keep costs down. Primarily, they will be concerned about arguments from the Labour Party that the money spent on the election could have been spent on more police officers.
A railway guard was facing jail tonight after being convicted of causing the death of a drunken teenager who fell under a train. Christopher McGee,...
A Conservative MP had rocks and tomatoes hurled at him after he was ambushed by around 50 "violent thugs" ahead of a talk on squatting, he said tonigh...
Three members of the same family died following a bungalow fire, believed to have been started by the father who had a history of mental illness, a co...
The mystery of who hit the engine driver over the head during the Great Train Robbery of 1963 has finally been solved. James Hussey, one of the 17-...
A dangerous fugitive suspected of committing a rape while on the run may have travelled to London. Offender Ivan Leach escaped from North Sea Camp ...
An armed robber wielding a meat cleaver was caught on CCTV - threatening to cut off a terrified woman’s arm. The masked man ran into a garage wit...
