Criminals who trade in illegal firearms face severe sentences, leading judges warned today as they doubled the number of years to be served by a man caught by police with a loaded revolver.

Four radical Islamists have admitted plotting a major pre-Christmas terror attack on the London Stock Exchange.

Nine men have denied plotting terror attacks on major London targets.

Of all the items to forget, of all the slips of the mind, it had to be that one. "I appear to have one more resolution," said Peter Hill-Wood, Arsenal's old-money, straw-man chairman, performing a swift about-turn after a surreptitious word from a suited apparatchik. "It is resolution five. All those in favour of re-electing Stan Kroenke to the board?"

Barclays is stepping up competition in the 90% mortgage market by introducing new "zero fee" deals from tomorrow.

Joanna Yeates's killer faced allegations today that he strangled her for sexual thrills.

Four men have appeared in court accused of using Facebook to encourage rioting or looting.

Four Russian men celebrated a gang rape like "professional footballers celebrating the scoring of a goal" a judge said yesterday as he jailed them for a sickening attack.

Four Russian men celebrated a gang rape like "professional footballers celebrating the scoring of a goal" a judge said today as he jailed them for a sickening attack.

Sir Clive Woodward is clearly bitten by the Olympic bug. Hence his decision to stick with the British Olympic Association rather than take the vacant performance director's job at Twickenham.

A man's body has been found following the sinking of a tugboat in the River Thames.

A crew member who fell in the River Thames in London after his tug capsized and sank was presumed drowned today as marine accident experts launched an investigation into the accident.

A search for a crew member missing after a tug capsized and sank on the Thames in south-east London was called off yesterday afternoon.