The husband of Emmy award-winning make-up artist Diane Chenery-Wickens has been charged with her murder, police said.

Millions of Manchester United fans would miss out on a home-coming celebration should they win the European Cup after officials banned any parade.

A police officer attacked by Glasgow Rangers fans after the team's defeat in the Uefa Cup Final has thanked the mystery man who helped him escape the violent mob.

A former Archbishop of Canterbury has appealed to the group holding the five "forgotten" British hostages kidnapped in Baghdad.

Police are investigating claims two children, aged 12 and 16, voted in a local election.

Further education is under threat from 'creeping privatisation', according to a union leader.

A 44-year-old man has been charged with raping a 12-year-old boy after allegedly tricking him into searching for his "lost" dog.

It is still not known what caused the deaths of two babies found in toy boxes at the home of a pensioner, after a post-mortem examination proved inconclusive.

An expert hired to set up the Government's £10 million database of violent sex offenders has been jailed for almost three years for distributing child pornography.

Police have been given more time to question two men arrested at a university campus under the Terrorism Act.

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