A defence solicitor who secured more than £500,000 in damages from a police force after he was wrongly arrested says officers mounted a “vendetta” against him.

Ariel Castro’s neighbours lament the lack of community and failure to recognise anything amiss

Heather Eastwood is married to Sean Price, who became the first chief constable in 35 years to be sacked

Prosecutors have charged 52 year old Ariel Castro, the Cleveland man suspected of abducting three women and holding them captive at his home, with multiple counts of kidnapping and rape.

Kidnapped as young women between 2002 and 2004, Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were widely given up for dead. Now they have emerged - one with a child, but what really happened during their years of captivity?

The suspects in the Cleveland kidnapping are expected to be charged today as the investigation into their imprisonment for a decade continues.

Amanda Berry

An elderly couple who died in a house fire have been named.

Two people died today in a house fire, emergency workers said.

The case of a mother who gave her daughter three ecstasy tablets for her 13th birthday present has been cited by the “Robocop” Mayor of Middlesbrough as an example of problem families.

A stolen four-by-four vehicle crashed through the window of a family home, hurling a nine-year-old child across the room.

A chief constable who was sacked and his deputy have dropped legal claims relating to their arrest as part of a corruption inquiry.

The number of young officers serving in police forces has fallen by almost half in two years because of the pressure on senior officers to cut budgets, according to new figures.

A cat which suffered chemical burns to 60 per cent of its body causing its black-and-white fur to fall out is recovering and its coat is growing back.