State pensioners, take heed!It's high time to mull over how you receive your well-deserved funds from the Department for Work and Pensions. You're faced with a choice: weekly or monthly payouts? The...

Museum thieves jailed for cage fighter murder plot1 hour agoThomas MackintoshBBC NewsReporting fromOld BaileyMet PoliceA gang of thieves from London who stole ancient artefacts from a Swiss museum...

Paul Woodford has a notorious history in Merseyside's gangland (Image: NWROCU)A notorious gangland figure who amassed nearly £500,000 from his criminal exploits has been ordered to pay back a mere...

Daniel Kelly, Stewart Ahearne and Louis Ahearne (left to right) (Image: PA)A robbery gang who plotted to kill a career criminal convicted of Britain’s largest ever cash heist, have been jailed....

Prosecutors to seek death penalty for Mangione as he heads to court51 minutes agoAlex BoydBBC NewsReutersUS federal prosecutors have filed a formal notice seeking the death penalty for Luigi...

Thousands of pensioners across the UK may have been short-changed by the government in a state pension blunder worth more than £800 million. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been...

Digging up an old driveway was a real blast for landscape gardeners in a seaside town - after uncovering a rusty WWI revolver and bullets in the old concrete. The aged Webley Mk VI Revolver was...

The kiss at Forest Bank Prison that brought Choni Kenny's world crumbling down (Image: GMP)The disgraced officer Kenny had illicit affairs with two criminals and exploited her role at Greater...

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Armed police were called to the scene of a shooting after a man was shot in the leg. The victim, a man in his 30s, has been rushed to hospital for treatment.At around 6.45pm this evening police had...

Explorers charting the wreck of a famous American World War II aircraft carrier have made a remarkable discovery more than three miles deep in the Pacific Ocean. The USS Yorktown and her crew fought...

The UK’s primary language is of course English, and has been for many hundreds of years. The tongue has evolved as many different peoples, such as the Romans, Angles, Vikings and Normans, made the...