Coventry City have accepted a 10-point deduction from the Football League after parent company Coventry City Ltd agreed to go into liquidation following the rejection of a Company Voluntary Agreement (CVA) by the owners of the Ricoh Arena.

At least four of the defendants are members of the same family

The head of the children’s services department accused of failing to prevent the death of the four-year-old schoolboy Daniel Pelka was still in his job last night despite growing calls for him to stand down.

A serious case review will investigate what opportunities to save Daniel were missed

Mother and her partner ‘took relish’ in reign of torture that led to murder of four-year-old boy

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For anyone who has wondered quite how the British Turf continues to seduce investment from the Gulf, perhaps a day at the July Festival at Newmarket might prove every bit as instructive as one spent among the pomp and pageantry of Ascot or Epsom. At a time of year when their homelands seem most arid, the sheikhs find themselves driven through avenues of trees between green paddocks to a racecourse full of shade and flowers. And if the quality of the sport is mixed, with plenty of maidens and handicaps as ballast to the elite contests, then there will be a corresponding air of relaxation over the next three afternoons – not least granted the benign weather forecast.

The League One side left the Ricoh Arena after a lengthy row over rent

After their unprecedented depredations at the Cheltenham Festival, the Irish plundered the first four races in Britain's equivalent carnival for Flat racing. Chauvinism aside, however, the deeper gains were perhaps made by those superpowers discreetly manoeuvring for supremacy in the global bloodstock market.

The hunt for a gunman who shot a man in a "targeted" attack is continuing, say police.

Ghostpoet went from working in insurance to the Mercury Prize shortlist. Now he's on his second album

Police have launched a murder inquiry after a man's body was found on an area of grassland near a block of flats.

Two leagues may be split into three in mid-season in RFL restructuring proposals

The League One club moved to the 32,000-capacity Ricoh Arena in 2005