A Scotland Yard community support officer has been charged with rape.

Two men have been jailed for money laundering following a £2.3 million fraud against the Olympic Delivery Authority.

A university dropout was jailed for eight years today for killing a budding children's TV actor and DJ who was stabbed in the heart.

A man was killed and a teenager injured in an apparent gangland double shooting near a funeral in South-east London yesterday.

A man who was charged with starting a fire at a clothing store in an area hit by riots during the summer disorder has been remanded in custody, a court official said today.

A top-performing state school can add up to £77,000 to the value of a house within its catchment area, according to new research, with the cost of properties near the 50 best-performing state schools 35 per cent higher than in the rest of the UK.

Two magistrates are dealing exclusively with search warrants. Police come to the court with the papers needed for raids, which are signed off straight away

Magistrates began dealing with the first of hundreds of cases of alleged rioters yesterday, as police cells in London were declared full. The prospect of housing the extra prisoners outside the capital was raised by John Drew, head of the Youth Justice Board, who said he could offer 300 places in secure units.

Two boys have been remanded in custody charged with the murder of a teenager on a busy high street.

Two teenagers have been arrested over the murder of a schoolboy stabbed in the neck in south-east London.

A group of teenagers who hunted down and killed another schoolboy in a brazen and merciless attack face jail.

Three teenagers were being questioned today on suspicion of murdering a schoolboy in a gang knife attack.

A teenage schoolboy has been stabbed to death in the street. The 15-year-old was set upon in Camberwell, south London, last night.

A five-year-old girl shot when a gunman opened fire in a shop may never walk again.