A 28-year-old man has been arrested after a woman's body was found in a pool of blood in an underpass.

The death of a woman whose body was found in an underpass is being treated as suspicious by police.

A 15-year-old boy has drowned after jumping from a bridge into a river.

A plastics worker is lucky to be alive after a large blaze broke out at a factory.

Detectives believe they have smashed a child trafficking gang preying on runaways as young as 11 for Britain's sex trade.

The Government has launched an investigation into an allegation of attempted fraud against welfare to work company A4e, it was announced today.

Up to 90 police officers were confronted by 200 people at an illegal rave on an industrial estate.

A 60-year-old man pleaded guilty today to a 1986 rape he had already been acquitted of after conclusive DNA evidence was discovered.

Police have arrested four former employees from the company which holds the Government's welfare-to-work contracts.

Four people have been arrested in a fraud investigation surrounding the Prime Minister's "back to work tsar" Emma Harrison.

The election of Police and Crime Commissioners is "at the heart of the Government's plan to cut crime", we have been told. So the Government will be pleased to see some big names showing an interest in running for the elections, scheduled for 15 November, even if they are not Conservatives.

The most senior Metropolitan police officer to be charged with corruption in 34 years went on trial today accused of abusing his office like a “bully” to arrest a man and falsely claim he was assaulted.

The TV chef's police caution for shoplifting from Tesco five times in two weeks marks the end of a difficult couple of years that saw his restaurant empire fall into administration, says Tom Peck

Celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson apologised today for his "stupid and irresponsible actions" after he was arrested for shoplifting cheese and wine at a supermarket.