A police force has said it will use a town centre curfew on unaccompanied young people with discretion and stressed it will only be used to remove tro...

All young people have been banned from entering a town centre at night unless they are accompanied by an adult in a bid to reduce bad behaviour. Un...

Campaigners have called for urgent action in the wake of a report into the deaths of three children who apparently took their own lives while in custo...

The grandmother of murdered 16-year-old Kyle Sheehan has made an emotional televised appeal for witnesses to come forward. Sheehan was stabbed in t...

A 14-year-old girl will appear in court tomorrow charged with the murder of a promising teenage footballer described as a "role model" for his communi...

A 15-year-old boy is facing a life sentence after being found guilty of killing a schoolboy whose stabbing was recorded on his own mobile phone. Le...

A 12-year-old boy raped and repeatedly sexually assaulted a nine-year-old girl after he watched porn online and wanted to feel "grown up", a court has...

A teenager was been convicted of murdering a boy in a row over a mobile phone while he was on bail for a previous knife attack. Nathan McLeod, 16, ...

A widow has died after muggers stole her handbag which contained her husband's ashes. Nellie Geraghty, 79, was left critically ill after she suffer...

A 13-year-old boy died on Monday after being stabbed at the weekend in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, police said. Jon Wilson was fatally injured in an alt...

I was born in West Ham in London's East End before World War II. Continual bombing, collapsing buildings, fire. All these I experienced at an early age. I was aware that people died.

If anything we need more of the qualities I see in lone parents: responsibility, care, respect and a work ethic second to none.

We can blame the parents all we like but part of the responsibility lies with us all. Taking back your community doesn't start with helping to clean up but simply trying to put back what we all take out.