Former Manchester United manager David Moyes is being investigated over an allegation he assaulted a man in a wine bar.

A convicted murderer has gone on the run from a British prison for the third time.

A British police officer has been asked to apologise to a blind man whom he shot with a Taser when he mistook his white stick for a samurai sword.

Coronation Street star William Roache said he wanted to get back to work after he was cleared of committing historic sex offences against five women.

Veteran broadcaster Stuart Hall has been charged with the alleged historic rapes of two girls.

British House of Commons Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans has been further arrested on suspicion of three counts of indecent assault.

Veteran 'Coronation Street' actor William Roache has been charged with five historic offences of indecent assault involving four girls.

Deputy House of Commons Speaker Nigel Evans has been arrested on suspicion of rape and sexual assault, sources said.

Veteran BBC broadcasting legend Stuart Hall was branded a child abuse “predator” after he admitted indecently assaulting 13 girls, the youngest aged just nine.

Veteran BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall has admitted indecently assaulting 13 girls, the youngest aged nine.

Coronation Street actor Bill Roache has been arrested for rape.

A blind stroke victim who was shot in the back with a 50,000-volt Taser stun gun by a police officer who mistook his white stick for a samurai sword is launching a compensation bid.

Council chiefs in Britain have ordered a licence review for a club which staged cage fighting involving children as young as eight.

A Scotland Yard chief apologised to Londoners today as he said the riots had stretched resources “to an extent I have never seen before”.

A major drugs haul seized in the North and England is now estimated to be worth more than £2m (€2.3m), police said today.

AN IRISHMAN, who is one of Britain’s most wanted paedophiles, and was mistakenly released by a police force in November, was last night re-arrested in Sussex.

ONE of Britain’s ‘most wanted’ paedophiles DJ-ed at a school disco in Ireland attended by girls aged as young as five years while he was on the run, a BBC documentary to be shown today will claim.

Mobile phone salesman Paul Potts was crowned the winner of 'Britain's Got Talent' last night.

Police urged TV producers to remove a contestant from a prime-time talent show because he is a sex offender, it has been confirmed.

A Christian couple questioned by police in England for describing homosexuality as "morally wrong" have won a £10,000 (€15,000) payout and an apology.

Lancashire Police have launched a criminal investigation into allegations that Birmingham’s Dwight Yorke was racially abused during yesterday’s Barclays Premiership game at Blackburn.

SNOOKER legend Jimmy White has insisted he would never do anything that brought his sport into disrepute after being arrested on suspicion of possessing a Class A drug.

British police investigating the deaths of 19 Chinese cockle pickers at Morecambe Bay have carried out a series of raids.

Three young sisters have died together in a house fire in Britain.

British police investigating the deaths of 19 Chinese cockle pickers who were drowned by incoming tides are hunting the gangmasters who recruited the illegal immigrants.

Up to 13 people were feared dead today by rescuers in Britain searching for a group of cockle pickers missing after they were trapped by rising tides.

The father of a 10-year-old girl who died after taking ecstasy is to be questioned by police for a second time next month.

Blackburn Rovers has launched an investigation after an allegation of "a serious sexual nature" was made against two members of staff.

Neighbours have told of their disbelief at the deaths of a heavily-pregnant policeman's wife and their young son.