Scores of police officers including a serving chief constable are being investigated over the Hillsborough disaster in what will be the biggest ever inquiry into police action, it has emerged.

The police watchdog will announce tomorrow what action it plans to take over allegations made in a damning report on the Hillsborough disaster.

David Cameron raised the prospect today that Sir Jimmy Savile could be posthumously stripped of his knighthood amid allegations of sexual abuse against young girls.

The chairman of the BBC Trust said allegations of sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile could not be excused as behaviour from a time when “attitudes were different”, and gave his backing to inquiries by police and the corporation.

Convicted child sex offender Gary Glitter raped a girl in Jimmy Savile’s dressing room in front of the television presenter, it has been claimed.

Scotland Yard will “work closely” with the BBC as it takes the national lead in assessing allegations against late TV presenter Sir Jimmy Savile, the force said tonight.

Calls to routinely arm police following the killing of two women officers were rejected by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, who warned against any knee-jerk response to the tragedy.

England’s Euro 2012 quarter-final against Italy will be watched by around 20 million people on television in the UK and 6,000 dedicated fans in Kiev tonight.

New guidelines that will bring “common sense” to relationships between the police and media in the UK have been drawn up, Theresa May told the Leveson Inquiry.

Police in Northern Ireland are facing questions tonight after confirmation they stored human body parts from people who died under suspicious circumstances without alerting families.

Football clubs should pay the full cost of policing a wider area around stadia on match days, according to the sport’s most senior police officer in England and Wales.

BRITISH police chiefs yesterday hit back at Prime Minister David Cameron’s plans to enlist a US crime expert after last week’s riots, as the conservative leader vowed “zero tolerance” against street violence.

Britain's Home Secretary Theresa May hit back at senior police chiefs over political criticism of their initial riot response, insisting it was her job to tell forces “what the public want them to do”.

ENGLISH police flooded the streets last night to ensure weekend drinking does not reignite the rioting that swept across London and other cities this week, shocking Britons and sullying the country’s image a year before it hosts the Olympics.

David Cameron was today forced to deny a rift with police over the handling of the devastating riots that swept England.

David Cameron insisted today that police and politicians had worked together to tackle the ugly riots that swept across England.

The death toll from the violent disorder that swept across England rose today after a man attacked by rioters as he attempted to stamp out a fire in west London died in hospital.

BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron said, after four nights of violence, a fightback was under way yesterday.

Scottish police officers are being deployed to areas in England following rioting across the country.

Scotland’s eight police forces are on stand-by to help tackle riots and looting which have spread across parts of England.

Children as young as seven have been issued with shotgun certificates in Britain, data released under the Freedom of Information Act has revealed.

More than 50,000 hate crimes were reported across the North, England and Wales last year.

The company which supplied the Tasers used by police in the stand-off with gunman Raoul Moat has had its licence revoked, the British Home Office said today.

THE cost of policing the Pope’s visit to Britain could reach £1.5 million (€1.8m), police chiefs said.

AT least 2,600 women have been trafficked into England and Wales and forced to work as prostitutes, a snapshot report published yesterday claims.

A BRITISH police advert which urged citizens to be suspicious of neighbours who spend a lot of time at home, keep their curtains drawn and use money instead of cash cards, was banned yesterday.

One in 10 calls to British police under a “Sarah’s Law” pilot scheme uncovered the hidden criminal past of someone with access to a child, it was revealed today.

The North’s new chief constable pledged today to work with all the people of the region to defeat dissident republican terrorists opposed to the peace process.

Hugh Orde’s tenure as the North's Chief Constable ends today after seven years in charge of policing the region.

The North's outgoing police chief has today accused the Stormont administration of not doing enough to tackle segregation and division in the region.

The North's new chief constable has vowed to build on the work of the man he will succeed, Hugh Orde.

The successor to the North's police chief Hugh Orde will be decided today as four high-ranking candidates face a rigorous interview process in Belfast.

RACIAL discrimination remains a problem for police and in certain areas has got worse a decade after a damning report said Britain’s biggest force was guilty of “institutional racism,” a committee of MPs said yesterday.

POLICE risk losing public confidence if they do not change how they manage protests, the British police watchdog said yesterday.

Hugh Orde used the publication of his last annual report as PSNI Chief Constable today to pay tribute to five officers who died in the line of duty this year.

The search for a new Chief Constable for the Police Service of Northern Ireland was launched today.

Property developer Barry Gilligan is set to take over as the new chairman of the North's Policing Board.

The North's police chief Hugh Orde was announced as the new president of Britain's Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) today.

The North’s top police officer is expected to find out today whether he has landed a new job.

A country town in the North came to a standstill today for the funeral of the policeman murdered by dissident republicans.

Two members of the far right British National Party have been living in Ireland, it emerged today.

Police in the North are facing a new threat from dissident republicans, it was warned today.

COCAINE users are driving the destruction of the rainforests and helping to fund terror groups which use kidnapping and land mines in Colombia, the South American state’s vice president warned.