Three children and a woman have died in a fire at a family home in Bolton, police said.

A woman in England who showered a teenage boy with gifts before sexually abusing him has been jailed for more than two years.

A teenage boy has drowned in a reservoir, police said.

Fresh arrests have been made in the Manchester bombing probe after police carried out a controlled explosion during a raid on an address in the Cheetham Hill area of the city.

Police are treating an explosion at Manchester Arena as a terrorist attack, believed to have been carried out by a suicide bomber.

Two women have died after a car hit a group of pedestrians outside a hospital in England.

A female police chief has escaped the sack after she launched a drunken tirade at a junior colleague about the size of her breasts.

Ten suspects have been identified in a major police probe into historical child sex abuse in youth football as the scandal continued to grow.

Greater Manchester Police has launched an investigation into historical sex abuse in youth football.

A 12-year-old girl has been raped in a park in England.

A Labour councillor in England has been reported to police over a "hate incident" when he allegedly called a transgender Tory rival "he" during a council debate.

A 12-year-old boy is a murder suspect after a man in his 40s was assaulted outside a McDonald's restaurant.

A security company said to have accidentally left a dummy bomb at Old Trafford that triggered an evacuation is facing calls for a full inquiry.

Three men have been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving after an 11-year-old boy was killed in a hit-and-run outside a mosque.

A motorway lorry driver was caught reading a book behind the wheel of his truck by traffic police in England.

Significant delays in the investigation of child protection cases have been uncovered by inspectors within one of Britain's police forces.

A teenager has appeared in court in England after a pregnant woman lost her unborn child following a street robbery at a bus stop.

A woman reporting her grandchildren for not doing their homework and the theft of a garden gnome were among emergency calls received within 24 hours by one of the UK’s largest police forces.

A woman reporting her grandchildren for not doing their homework and the theft of a garden gnome were among emergency calls received within 24 hours by one of the UK’s largest police forces.

'Emmerdale's Danny Miller has been left fearing for his life after he was bombarded with online threats.

A terminally ill great-grandfather mugged by thugs in England has branded his attackers as “cowards”.

A teenage girl is to appear in a British court over the death of a fireman in a shop blaze there.

Thieves dug a 50ft (15m) tunnel under a building to steal thousands of pounds from a cash machine in the UK.

Jimmy Savile’s former flatmate and chauffeur was today released on bail after appearing at Manchester City Magistrates’ Court charged with a series of serious sex offences against young girls.

Component parts for what could be the UK’s first ever 3D printed gun have been seized by police.

A drunk passenger who stripped naked on an airport tarmac and challenged the flight captain to a fight had to be tasered by police.

Police in Britain have spoken to more than 30 former female pupils of a prestigious music school who have reported historic sexual abuse.

British police have made their first arrests using new hate crime policies aimed to protect those with alternative lifestyles.

The father and agent of former England footballers Gary and Phil Neville has been arrested on suspicion of indecent assault, police sources in the UK confirmed today.

Manchester United star Nani has been involved in a car crash with an unmarked police car.

Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell, who has been charged with child sex offences including rape, will not appear in any further episodes pending the outcome of legal proceedings, ITV said.

Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell, who plays garage boss Kevin Webster in the TV soap, has been charged with child sex offences.

A British police force has released audio recordings of prank callers reporting a marmalade theft and an Emmerdale plotline as it urged the public not to abuse the emergency 999 number.

The Football Association has confirmed it has opened an investigation into an incident at the end of today’s Manchester derby when an object was thrown from the crowd and hit United’s Rio Ferdinand.

Police officers and the public turned out in force again today for the funeral of a second policewoman killed in a gun and grenade attack.

Thousands of police officers from across the country gathered today in memory of a policewoman killed in a gun and grenade attack.

The funeral for one of the two policewomen murdered in a gun and grenade attack will be held later today at Manchester Cathedral.

Greater Manchester Chief Constable Peter Fahy today laid flowers at the scene where Pcs Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone were murdered.

Greater Manchester’s Chief Constable today said it was “absolutely normal” for police to have bailed the man who now faces accusations that he killed two unarmed policewomen.

Two young sisters, reportedly Irish, who went missing overnight in Manchester were found when a police officer stopped a missing teenage girl in the street.

The parents of two-year-old Jamie Heaton, who died in an explosion in Shaw, Greater Manchester, paid tribute to their son today, saying: “Jamie was unique and amazing. We will miss everything about him.”

A man has been shot dead during a police operation involving armed officers in Britain last night.

Police swooped on fanzine sellers outside Old Trafford at the weekend, the Irish Examiner has learned.