Fake coins totalling £4.1m in value have been discovered in a freight container, a haul that Scotland Yard believes is the biggest of its kind to ever be found in the UK.

Teachers will be striking today at a school being forced to become an academy.

There has to be good reason to traipse across town for a kebab. And this secret sauce might be it...

A man was jailed for life today for two murders and a string of "senseless" assaults.

Six people, including a butcher and an optician, have been charged in connection with trafficking an Indian woman, Scotland Yard said today.

Free parenting classes are not a "nanny state" policy, David Cameron insisted as he unveiled a number of initiatives aimed at helping families.

A boy of 15 is facing a life sentence after being found guilty yesterday of murdering a student who was stabbed in a row over conkers.

A private care home was criticised by a judge today as he sentenced a mentally ill resident to life for killing an innocent schoolboy.

There’s a gathering of tribes in the city. “Our languages, our backgrounds, our cultures are different, but together we have been drawn to this place…” No, it’s not the Olympic village – we’re in Caledonian Park, and Babel isn’t part of any Olympic fandango (though it is brought about by World Stages, a project between eight theatres celebrating ‘London in the world’.)

More than 700 victims of last year's riots are still waiting for their claims for compensation to be looked at nine months after the disturbances, official figures show, despite promises from David Cameron to get businesses "back up and running quickly".

The Olympic flame starts its journey to London this week from the Temple of Hera in Greece. It will be held in a torch of pioneering. British design. Emily Dugan sheds a little light

Left-leaning David Hare's new play is based on his days as a scholarship boy at public school. Michael Coveney meets him

Unions, it is sometimes said, are a broad church, made up of members with a vastly differing array of opinions.

A former deacon murdered his girlfriend in a "savage and sustained" knife attack in front of her two young children, a court heard today.