A Royal Marine has admitted hoarding explosives and making bombs for a Northern Ireland-related terror attack.

Police in England are investigating an allegation that a Tory MP's aide raped a woman in the British Houses of Parliament.

Police are investigating an alleged rape in England's Houses of Parliament.

Police in the North have recovered a significant amount of terrorist material as part of an ongoing search operation in the Larne area.

A British Royal Marine has appeared in court charged with Northern Ireland-linked terror offences.

A Royal Marine is being questioned by UK detectives investigating Northern Ireland-linked terrorism, understood to be connected to two major dissident republican arms finds.

Detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have "outstanding work" left to do on the inquiry and may apply for more British Home Office funding.

Two Greenpeace activists have scaled Nelson's Column in London to attach a gas mask to the famous statue to highlight air pollution in Britain.

Scotland Yard has apologised to seven women who were deceived into “abusive, deceitful, manipulative and wrong” relationships with undercover police officers.

A television presenter who worked with Jill Dando has said the pair received similar kidnap and rape threats just weeks before the star was murdered.

French and British police police are investigating whether a group of Chelsea fans who prevented a black man getting on to a Metro train in Paris can be banned from football.

Channel 4 News breached broadcasting rules over its coverage of the Ellison review into possible police corruption around the Stephen Lawrence case, according to communications watchdog Ofcom.

Buckingham Palace has said there is “no record” of a meeting between the British queen and the woman at the centre of sex allegations against her son, the Duke of York.

Four men have been arrested in Britain in connection with an alleged Islamist terror plot.

Former pop star Gary Glitter is to be charged with eight sex offences involving underage girls.

Former pop star Gary Glitter is to be charged with eight sex offences involving underage girls, the Crown Prosecution Service has announced.

Nine people have been injured after a pleasure boat crashed into London's Tower Bridge.

Police in the UK are appealing for help in identifying five men they would like to speak to after pushing and shoving “turned nasty” during a football match.

An armed robber Michael Wheatley, known as the "Skull Cracker", who has been on the run in the UK has been found and two men are in custody in London, Kent police said

On-loan Newcastle forward Loic Remy will face no further action after he was arrested over rape claims.

Three police officers from the unit in charge of protecting Downing Street have been arrested on suspicion of accessing hardcore pornography on their mobile phones.

UK police are examining anti-Semitic tweets posted after an Arsenal-Spurs clash that saw winger Theo Walcott and St John Ambulance staff pelted with missiles.

Police are to review TV cook Nigella Lawson’s admission that she took cocaine.

New police inquiries have rejected suggestions that the SAS was involved in the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed, it was reported tonight.

A man was arrested in London today for questioning about a sectarian murder in Northern Ireland more than 35 years ago.

Scotland Yard has said that the detention of the partner of a Guardian journalist at the centre of revelations about US and British security services was "legally and procedurally sound".

Police are examining new information which alleges that Princess Diana and Dodi al Fayed were murdered by a member of the British military.

Police in the UK are examining new information which alleges that Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed were murdered by a member of the British military.

The deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed are being looked at again by police after they received information.

Five members of prison staff have been suspended after Woolwich murder suspect Michael Adebolajo lost two teeth when he was restrained in jail.

Scotland Yard has passed a file of evidence to Australian police over a prank call to the hospital where the duchess of Cambridge was treated for morning sickness during the early stages of her pregnancy.

Anthony Downey, 61, from Co Donegal, is to be charged over the IRA’s Hyde Park bombing in London which killed eight soldiers on July 20, 1982, the UK's Crown Prosecution Service said today.

QPR striker Loic Remy has been bailed after he was arrested on suspicion of rape.

Queens Park Rangers striker Loic Remy has been arrested on suspicion of rape, sources said.

Mobile phone giant Vodafone has teamed up with defence firm BAE Systems to develop new technology to protect businesses against cyber attacks.

The chief superintendent of the Metropolitan Police’s Public Order branch, Mick Johnson, says his force is working closely with football clubs at tackling racism in the light of further allegations which surfaced last night.

British detectives investigating the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal will publish a joint report this week, Scotland Yard said today, as it emerged prosecutors had received a file on a man in his 60s.

British police investigating the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal have made a further arrest and Sky News sources have said it is former Radio One DJ Dave Lee Travis.

Police investigating the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal made a further arrest today as they revealed the number of potential victims has risen to 450.

UK police have launched an investigation into alleged comments made by referee Mark Clattenburg during Sunday’s Barclays Premier League match between Chelsea and Manchester United.

Mark Clattenburg and the Football Association were today both waiting to discover whether police would investigate allegations the referee used “inappropriate language” towards Chelsea stars John Obi Mikel and Juan Mata.