More than half of Britons believe some rape victims should take responsibility for being attacked, research suggested today.

England has, in the theatre, been symbolised as a decrepit theatre or a slipshod hospital. Some might feel Ireland should be represented as a church, but Brendan Behan knew better. In The Hostage, Ireland is a Dublin pub with rooms upstairs. These are rented by three whores (two of them female) and a dodgy lodger who brings in a hymn-singing salvationist. The proprietor, Patrick, has lost a leg in an IRA battle at Cork--or was it Mullingar? Given the alcoholic intake here, it is not surprising that he isn't sure; one suspects he has become legless without leaving the pub.

A controversial scheme to provide over-the-counter contraceptive pills to teenagers in a bid to cut unintended pregnancies is being piloted in south London .

Councils with the lowest quality adult social care services in the country were named and shamed by regulators today.

Eight local authorities have been named and shamed by regulators over the quality of their adult social care.

Detectives were today waiting to question a father of two suspected of stabbing his four-year-old son to death before turning the knife on himself.

Two pensioners helped to flood Britain with millions of pounds of cannabis disguised as frozen chicken imports, a court heard today.

A man died when he was impaled on a large shard of glass after throwing a woman through a shop window in a street row.

A teenage boy was stabbed and bottled at a festival, causing an appearance by US soul singer Alexander O'Neal to be cancelled.