42-year-old man plunged into the River Thames after four hours of negotiations with police failed to talk him down

Study finds Labour would gain 109 seats, taking them to a total of 367 MPs and giving them a majority of 84

Neil McCorkell was a regular in the Hampshire cricket XI from 1932 to 1951, a quiet man of no great height who kept wicket and, for much of his career, opened the batting, a demanding combination in the six-day-a-week schedule of those years.

Further evidence of the widening North-South divide in house prices emerged today as a national survey reveals that three-quarters of the postcodes registering price rises are in London and the South-East.

Ashes must be forgotten in order to capitalise on NZ captaincy saga

The chairwoman of David Cameron’s local Conservative branch has resigned in protest at his support for gay marriage.

More than 200 strangers have attended the funeral of a 70-year-old former Royal Marine after a vicar put out a plea on Facebook amid fears that he would be buried without mourners.

Prosecutors and police have already been criticised for missing the chance to bring the disgraced entertainer to court over the allegations before he died

Saving the Sussex woodland is worth a brush with the law, the activist tells Charlotte Philby

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman's body was found by a colleague who was due to take her to work.

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County will provide finishing school for rivals' next generation at summer academy

Cabbies claim drivers would be endangered by passengers travelling late at night who thought they were being driven deliberately slowly in order to inflate fares

A chance to convict Jimmy Savile for sex offences against three victims when he was alive was missed because police and prosecutors did not take claims seriously enough, a report has found.