Notts County footballer Lee Hughes has been fined after admitting assaulting a woman at a hotel, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.

It was the morning after the night before and Vernon Kay, Gabby Logan, Mel C, the Military Wives, Hugh Bonneville and Co had packed up and moved on. The X Factor-style glitz of the official opening of the 2012 Olympic Stadium gave way to Britain's Got Talent on day three of the athletics test event, the British Universities and Colleges Sport Championships.

A man at the heart of last year's Croydon riots had his sentence of four years detention nearly doubled today.

Does the recognisability of a place make it a more desirable place to live? That's the theory that a group of researchers from Cambridge University and Brazil's Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais are trying to put to the test. Their method is the creation of Urbanopticon – a game which puts the recognisability of London's streets to the test by picking up random locations from Google Street View and testing users to see if they can judge the location (or borough/Tube station) solely by landmarks/brick types and so on.

The rioter who set fire to a 140-year-old furniture shop, burning it to the ground in a scene which became a symbol of last summer’s riots, has been sentenced to 11-and-a-half years in prison.

A 30-year-old man has been arrested after a town centre stabbing left one person dead and another in hospital.

The new headteachers' leader has transformed a failing school and counts the controversial Ofsted head as a friend. But that doesn't mean they give each other an easy ride, she tells Richard Garner.

A police station was evacuated today after seven people were injured in a blast at a Scotland Yard firing range armoury.

The human cost of last summer's riots was brought home yesterday as a shop owner revealed that a part of him "had died" when a looter destroyed his family-run business during the mindless carnage.

A man today admitted starting a massive fire which destroyed a family-run furniture shop during the riots last year.

A man accused of starting a "catastrophic" fire at a 144-year-old furniture shop boasted about causing the blaze, a court heard today.

A man has appeared in court accused of starting a fire that destroyed a family furniture shop during the riots last year.

Two councils have been fined a total of £180,000 for failing to keep highly sensitive information about the welfare of children secure, a watchdog said today.