The head of a Traveller family in England who helped to run a modern day slavery ring has been jailed for 10 years and nine months.

The victim of a modern slavery gang was ordered to dig his own grave and told "that's where you're going" if he did not sign a bogus work contract.

Latest: The victim of a modern slavery gang was ordered to dig his own grave and told "that's where you're going" if he did not sign a bogus work contract.

A car which was believed to be stolen has crashed into a level crossing after failing to stop for police in England.

Three people including a suspected gunman have been shot dead near a swimming pool in England.

Two 14-year-olds will appear in court charged with murder after the bodies of a mother and her teenage daughter were found at a house in Lincolnshire, England.

USA: A retired teacher who sued a school district, saying administrators discriminated against her because of a phobia that makes her fear young children, has lost her appeal in the federal case.

The grandfather of a nine-year-old boy has been charged with his murder.

A pilot with the US Air Force (USAF) has escaped serious injury after ejecting as his fighter jet came down in a field in England.

A runaway emu had police officers in a flap after it was spotted wandering in the road near an RAF base.

A dog which attacked a woman in england and left her with “serious injuries” has been found after a search by armed police.

A 22-year-old man has been charged on suspicion of making malicious comments on Facebook following the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby.

The British Prime Minister said that the people who carried out yesterday's suspected terrorist murder in south east London are sickening individuals.

Anti-terror police investigating the “barbaric” murder of a soldier in London have searched a property 150 miles away in Lincolnshire.

Security group G4S dashed hopes for a speedy recovery from its Olympics woes today by warning that this year will be just as challenging.

A police force has defended its actions after coming under fire for shooting dead an “aggressive” Belgian blue cow in a primary school car park.

Police in Britain are working to identify five men killed in an explosion inside an industrial unit which has been linked to the production of illegal alcohol.

Investigators in Britain were today probing the cause of a devastating explosion that killed five men inside an industrial estate unit.

Three men were jailed today after they admitted running an international paedophile ring that distributed millions of indecent images and films of children to over 40 countries around the world.

A MAN wanted in connection with a multi-million fraud and who has been on the run for more than 25 years is believed to have been found dead in France.

A wanted man who has been on the run for over 25 years is believed to have been found dead in France.

A British mother who snatched her four-year-old twins from social services was charged today with two counts of kidnap.

Two twins snatched from social services by their mother were safe and well in police protection today after being recovered by officers.

An alcoholic mother snatched her four-year-old twins from social workers in the UK and might have fled to Ireland, a judge said today.

A pilot was killed when his single-seater aircraft crashed shortly after take-off in the UK today.

Prisoners jailed on the strength of a DNA testing technique that is now under review could turn to the appeal courts in a bid to have their convictions quashed, an expert said today.

UK Police have suspended the testing of “low copy DNA” following the acquittal of Omagh bomb suspect Sean Hoey, it was revealed tonight.

A father told today of his devastation at the loss of his four youngest children, who died after the Land Rover he was driving plunged into a river in the UK.

A MAN is being questioned by police in England in connection with a series of hoax emails sent to friends and relatives of people missing following the tsunami.

Furious Boston chairman Jon Sotnick has claimed there is a conspiracy against his club after manager Steve Evans was ejected from Blundell Park by police on Saturday.

A COUPLE gunned down in their seaside bungalow may have been the victims of a revenge attack for another killing.

Two people are thought to have been killed in Britain today when a glider crashed into a field, police said.

A POLICE report warning that Ian Huntley was a “serial sex attacker” would have been revealed if Lincolnshire Police had been asked for a vetting check, the Soham inquiry heard yesterday.

SOHAM killer Ian Huntley was identified in a police intelligence report as a “serial sex attacker” who would strike again, three years before he murdered Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, it was revealed yesterday.

THE mother of a teenager stabbed to death in a school corridor broke down in tears yesterday as she said her family had been “ripped apart” by the tragedy.

AN English teenager was in police custody last night following the fatal stabbing of a 14-year-old boy during a fight at a secondary school.

A schoolboy has been arrested after another pupil died following a fight, police in England said today.

A mother-of-three who stabbed her lover to death in the UK in a row over garlic mayonnaise in her chicken burger was jailed today for four years.

THE chief constable of a British police force that is prosecuting an ambulance driver for an alleged speeding offence while he carried a transplant organ yesterday hit back at critics who believe the case should never have been brought.