Australia's top racing steward told the Old Bailey court in London today that he could not understand why six-times champion jockey Kieren Fallon lost a race which he had been winning.

A GANG of robbers staged a terrifying armed kidnap plot to pull off a £53 million (€78.7m) heist at a Bank of England cash store, the Old Bailey court heard yesterday.

A retired policeman who killed his terminally-ill wife in a suicide pact was shown mercy by a judge today.

A JILTED wife scrawled "whore" down the side of her love rival's car and attacked the woman in her home before she killed her with a shotgun, an Old Bailey court heard yesterday.

Royal butler Paul Burrell had not asked permission from the Bishop of London - an executor of the Princess of Wales’s will – to remove property from Kensington Palace after her death, an Old Bailey court heard today.

A quiet London street was today turned into an open-air extension of Britain’s famous Court Number One of the Old Bailey.