Bridger claims his memory went blank after he hit the five-year-old with a car

The privatisation of legal proceedings in the US has led to untold miscarriages of justice - and now it's coming to a town near you

High Court judge lifts ruling on 'Monster of Worcester' who impaled victims on railings

Alfredo Landa was unique among Spanish actors to have lent his name to a national film genre. Landismo was the label coined to describe the Carry On style of hugely popular Spanish comedies of the early 1970s that made Landa a household name.

After Ukip’s success in the local elections there has been growing interest in what sort of people the party attracts. In Lincolnshire, Chris Pain, leader of the 16 Ukip councillors who are now the main opposition on the county council, denies writing offensive comments posted under his name on Facebook. “My email has been hacked several times. I have got someone looking into this, but it has been a shock to find out how easy it is to do,” he tells me.

British Horseracing Authority find 35-year-old guilty of conspiring to commit a corrupt or fraudulent practice

The actors are in Grozny to talk about their new movie – and nothing else. Shaun Walker joins the roadshow

Russell Brand was there... perhaps to remind himself  of the consequences of going back to his drug-fuelled past

Keir Starmer defies Home Secretary with insistence that ‘blanket rule’ on arrest is wrong

The 37-year-old said she no longer trusted her husband and didn’t want to be a single mother

Tech giant ‘avoided’ paying more than $1m every hour due to use of international loopholes

The London High Court battle between an airline backed by media owner Alexander Lebedev and General Electric, the world’s biggest aeroplane lease business, saw scorn poured on the allegedly low-ball lease valuations set by GE in a disputed plane sale.

The Financial Transactions Tax nicknamed the "Robin Hood Tax" might be popular with celebrities, but Osborne's objections are rooted in economic good sense