The baby boy found dead in waste which was being sorted at a recycling plant was a newborn, police said today.

A woman had a lucky escape when her car plunged down a grassy bank and stopped just feet from a cliff edge.

A teenager has contacted police to say she is the mother of a baby boy found dead in waste being sorted at a recycling plant.

The body of a baby was found today in waste being sorted at a recycling plant.

A former police community support officer (PCSO) was warned today that he is facing a lengthy custodial sentence after admitting child sex offences.

The average asking price for a property coming on to the market hit an all-time high this month, a survey said, beating the record set nearly four years ago.

Three people were killed and two others were seriously injured during a collision between two vehicles on a country road in East Yorkshire.

Parents face a "premium" of around £91,000 to buy a house near a top state primary school, a study suggested today.

The Chief Constables of two police forces today defended the "transformational" changes which could result following a meeting with private sector firms to discuss the possible contracting out of some work by the forces.

Five nurses have been suspended from a hospital's children's ward after claims that a baby was restrained, according to reports.

A pub-goer has been jailed for three years after attacking customers in a pub with a chainsaw.

The ex-Deputy Prime Minister is back on the hustings again, but party politics are far from his mind. By Oliver Wright

At 73, John Prescott isn't mellowing. He tells Oliver Wright how the press is devious, that the Met is 'questionable', and why he's taking a shot at becoming a police commissioner