Gregg Fryett sold a green miracle to his investors – and now they could lose up to £32m

Judge says it may have been a crazy scheme, ‘but it was a very real plan’

London officers given courses in dealing with public in Spanish, Polish, Russian, Arabic…

Cahal Milmo braves wintry weather to see the Crucifixion re-enacted in London

They posed as businessmen to bring tonnes of cocaine into Britain, but their lucrative operation ended with jail terms

New flat-rate state pension is worth £144 a week

Some 400 years ago, the English Puritan John Winthrop set out for America with a loathing of democracy and drink. His descendant Matthew Burzon is now heading back in the opposite direction as the next US ambassador to Britain with more modern values - and no shortage of booze.

The singer Joss Stone today described to a court how “a really nice day” was spoilt by the arrival of a police officer at her Devon home to explain that two men had been arrested nearby on suspicion of plotting to rob and murder her.

Thousands of British ex-pats living in Cyprus will have their pensions temporarily halted and can nominate non-Cypriot bank accounts to ensure payments are not affected by the country’s controversial levy on savings, the Government announced today.

Invasive – and tenacious – South American shrub affecting plants and damaging sheep