The BBC has commissioned a second series of hard-hitting crime drama Ripper Street.

East London group that hounds people on the streets are branded ‘complete bigots’

The Tate's Pre-Raphaelite exhibition may be due to close, but the harsher realities of Victorian Britain haunt us still

Tate Britain's Pre-Raphaelite exhibition draws to a close next week, but the Victorians are with us still, like an ex-wife we've locked in the attic for her own good. Or an escaped convict who's been benevolently stalking us since we first met him in a graveyard. Or the ghost of a childhood sweetheart who floats over the Yorkshire moors to moan at our window.

A man will appear in court tomorrow charged with stabbing a 50-year-old man to death in the street.

For transcendence with an on-and-off switch, there's nothing like neon.

The brother of former EastEnders actress Gemma McCluskie, found dead in a canal, now accepts responsibility for killing her, the Old Bailey heard today.

Skeleton could hold key to century-old puzzle of what caused Joseph Merrick's terrible disfigurement

The City trader accused of Britain's biggest bank fraud has been granted bail. Kweku Adoboli, 32, is accused of gambling away a record £1.4bn while working for Swiss banking giant UBS.

A City trader accused of gambling away a record £1.4 billion in a banking fraud has been granted bail.

A baby has survived after plunging from a third floor window, landing on a concrete overhang around 20ft below.

Further to Marcus Williamson's interesting obituary on Vidal Sassoon (11 May), he glosses over perhaps the most important element of how he first got a job in a hairdressing salon, writes Michael S Fishberg.

The brother of a former EastEnders actress was remanded in custody at the Old Bailey today accused of her murder.

The brother of a former EastEnders actress whose headless body was found dumped in a canal has been charged with her murder.