Alex Lees, the 20-year-old Yorkshire opening batsman tipped as a future England player by Geoff Boycott, scored his second century of the season as Derbyshire suffered at Chesterfield, where the visitors hope to regain top place in the First Division from unbeaten Sussex with a fifth win.

Landmark may be closed to visitors after National Lottery Fund rejects appeal for cash

Tragedy ruined last season for the Surrey wicketkeeper, but he has a brighter outlook for this term and wants an England recall

A protester has been bound over to keep the peace for 12 months after he lunged at a car carrying the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall before the Archbishop of Canterbury's enthronement.

The head of the Church of England has said some gay couples have loving and monogamous relationships of "stunning quality" - and he believes a woman will one day be made an archbishop.

Dale Bolinger is accused of conspiring with Gilberto Valle

Police have dug up the garden of a male nurse in Kent who is allegedly linked to a New York policeman suspected of plotting to torture, kill and eat women, it emerged today.

Online contact in Britain - known as Moody Blues or meatmarketman - gave Valle advice on not getting caught by police, including references to Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe

65-year-old cancer sufferer's son brands thief 'absolute scum'

An Italian fraudster who posed as a top lawyer pocketed more than £575,000 a client had paid him for legal services the conman never provided, a court has heard.

Minister sets out scheme for UK’s biggest prison despite warnings that concept is discredited

Rowan Williams formally steps down today as the Archbishop of Canterbury to take up a life in gentle academia after nearly a decade of leading the world's Anglicans during one of its most turbulent periods.

'I was completely introverted. I felt there was no one I could trust to tell them what was going on in my head'

In a rare intervention into religious matters, the PM said he was 'very sad' about the outcome