London police have arrested 130 suspects since suicide bomb attacks in July, yet the threat of terrorism continues to increase, the city's top policeman, Sir Ian Blair, said today...

One day in July 2004 ex-soldier Andrew Wragg visited his sick son and put a pillow over his head, suffocating him. He phoned the police telling them it was a mercy killing to end Jacob's suffering due to Hunter Syndrome...

Police have arrested two men in connection with the murder of police officer Sharon Beshenivsky, who was killed by armed robbers in Bradford last month...

A father who ordered his two teenage sons to murder a university student in a so-called "honour killing" because the victim had made the man's daughter pregnant, was jailed for 20 years on Monday...

Motor racing legend Jackie Stewart has visited Aberdeen University at the launch of Scotland's first professorship in dyslexia. Sir Jackie, who has the condition, hailed the move as ground-breaking...

NEW powers are planned to allow police to seize the assets of small-time drug dealers. Tony Blair intends to reduce the amount that can be seized from £5,000 to £1,000 to widen the number of criminals police could target, such as minor drug dealers...

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THE government today rejected claims that hundreds of "torture flights" from the US had gone through British airports...

Detectives hunting the killers of a policewoman gunned down in Bradford said they had made arrests on Monday after searching an area in Newport, Wales...

Six per cent of the population, or about 3.6 million Britons, are either gay or lesbian, the government's first attempt to quantify the homosexual population has concluded...

Too many terminally ill patients are denied the right to die in the comfort of their own home due to a lack of services outside hospital, according to a report published today...

A father who bullied his two teenage sons into murdering their sister's boyfriend was today jailed for at least 20 years...

Police hunting the killers of PC Sharon Beshenivsky have made a number of arrests in a street in Newport, South Wales...

Conservative constituency branches are to be told to choose candidates for the most winnable seats from an A-list of the party's "best and brightest" that will be at least 50 per cent female...

Firefighters extinguished flames in half the tanks that exploded at an oil depot north of London, as they fought peacetime Europe's biggest industrial blaze...