The police officer accused of killing the newspaper vendor Ian Tomlinson during London's G20 protests in 2009 has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter.

A prominent Chechen exile in Istanbul has narrowly avoided assassination after his bodyguards disarmed the would-be killer at the last minute.

The father of a man who was killed during August's riots, whose dignified plea for calm became one of the most memorable images of the country's response to the unrest, has been charged with assault over an alleged road rage incident.

Two demonstrators supporting the Travellers faced with eviction from Dale Farm have been arrested after a protest outside the offices of Basildon Council.

Police are questioning a mother of eight in connection with the death of a child that may have laid undiscovered in the cellar of the family home for up to two years. The family was known to social workers.

The real story here is not one of a threat to press freedom but one of monumental police stupidity

Anti-terror police have arrested seven people after a long-running intelligence operation into a suspected "international" threat from Islamic extremists.

Every now and again you get a One Foot In The Grave moment and wonder whether Britain is getting more like the way the Daily Mail describes it.

The investigation into a hospital hit by allegations of tampering with saline drips took a new twist yesterday amid claims that a bottle of milk had been contaminated with bleach.

Police found a series of suicide notes left by gunman Raoul Moat after he embarked on a murderous rampage, an inquest jury heard today.

A pensioner whose remains were found in his back garden died from "blunt force trauma to the head", police said today.

Police investigating the disappearance of an 85-year-old man have found human remains in the pensioner's back garden.

Two men have been arrested after Southampton defender Dan Seaborne was seriously injured in an assault outside a nightclub.

Two men arrested by police investigating the murders of three men hit by a car while protecting shops and homes from looters face more questioning today.