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75-year-old man stabbed to death in Birmingham

Police have launched a murder inquiry after a 75-year-old man was stabbed to death.

Two men have been found guilty of raping a 14-year-old boy in this Debenhams store in Manchester

Two men found guilty of raping 14-year-old boy in Manchester Debenhams

Judge says Alex Wilson-Fletcher and Abdelkader El-Janabi can expect substantial jail terms

The moment the man was dragged back onto the platform by the police officer

Video: The dramatic moment a police officer saves man from an oncoming train

A man attempting to jump in front of a train in a Colombian metro station was rescued by an eagle-eyed policeman who happened to be standing nearby on the platform.

CCTV footage shows the heavily pregnant Fiona Anderson leaving the keys to her own home at a property in Lowestoft where she believed her estranged partner had been staying

Fiona Anderson death: Police release new CCTV which shows last moments of heavily pregnant Lowestoft mother before fall

The young mum had a violent row with her estranged partner the night before she died

Manchester police make first arrests under new hate crime law after emo teenager is attacked

Police in Manchester have arrested two people for an attack on a 16-year-old emo in the first recorded hate crime against followers of alternative subcultures.

Amazing CCTV footage shows massive blast as raiders hit petrol forecourt cash machine

Police have arrested a man in connection with a raid in which a petrol station cashpoint machine was blown open by thieves.

Apple says sorry to Chinese for warranty problems

Weeks of attacks by Chinese state media have forced Apple to apologise to its Chinese customers, as the Californian firm attempts to counter a wave of negative publicity in its second largest market after the US.

Watch out – fewer CCTV cameras about

Watch out – fewer CCTV cameras about

Budget cuts mean some local councils have had to dispense with much of their CCTV cover... and that's just fine with some people

A man dressed as Batman marches a suspected fraudster to a police station in Bradford

Bradford mystery: Man dressed as Batman hands over suspect to police

The Caped Crusader's identity remains a mystery

British grandmother Jennifer Mills-Westley

Bulgarian drug addict Deyan Deyanov found guilty of stabbing and beheading British pensioner in Tenerife

A Bulgarian drug addict who beheaded a British grandmother in a frenzied knife attack on the holiday island of Tenerife was today found guilty of murder.

Her Majesty's Prison

TV review: Her Majesty's Prison – Aylesbury, ITV

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Notorious Exeter safer sex ball cancelled

A long-running "safer sex"-themed student ball has been cancelled, a month after it was embroiled in controversy.

Naked body of 'troubled' 13-year-old girl Genelle Conway-Allen found dumped in car park near her home

The seventh grader went missing after school last Thursday

Andrew Mitchell has told how he was caught

Mitchell: I was stitched-up by officials who hid evidence

Andrew Mitchell, the former Government Chief Whip at the centre of the “plebgate” scandal, will tonight accuse Downing Street officials of covering-up evidence showing he did not abuse police.

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