Five members of a family were convicted today over the death of a man whose headless corpse was found in a lake.

A "Good Samaritan" risked his life to rescue a toddler from a burning car.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg tonight said he would offer a "manifesto you can trust" as he dismissed David Cameron's plans for government.

An 80-year-old man today denied trying to rape a 92-year-old woman, a court official said.

A British-bound passenger plane was involved in a security alert today and had to turn back only 15 minutes into its flight, according to reports.

After taking a good kicking from his detractors of late, Gordon Ramsay has been characteristically keen to respond with a few counter-punches of his own.

Isn't it frustrating when you've just started the first few chapters of a new book, one that has you gripped after only several pages, and then all of a sudden you have to put it down? Maybe it's because you were on a First Capital Connect train earlier this week, and you finished reading one of the 32-page free book samples that were handed out to commuters.

Two people were arrested following a "laser attack" on a helicopter, police said today.

A "vulnerable" man was kept as a slave and tortured for his benefit money before being killed and his headless body dumped in a lake, a court heard today.

The missing head of a decapitated man discovered in a lake has been found, police said today.

A patient's complaint that her family learned about her abortion from a hospital worker is to be investigated, an NHS board said today

A government adviser on combating extremism among young Muslims today accepted substantial undisclosed damages over a newspaper claim that he supported al-Qa'ida.

Five Muslim men accused of branding British soldiers rapists, murderers and baby killers during a homecoming parade were today found guilty of a public order offence.