A British firearms dealer who helped supply the biggest hoard of illegal weapons ever uncovered in the UK has been jailed for six years.

Gardaí intercepted and detained an escaped British sex offender as he was about to board a plane to Hungary yesterday morning.

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Reality TV star and singer Lil’ Chris has died aged 24 in his hometown of Lowestoft.

A man has been charged by police investigating three deaths linked to a suspected rogue batch of ecstasy pills, as another person was admitted to hospital after taking the drug.

Three men are being questioned by police after a spate of deaths linked to a potentially fatal batch of ecstasy tablets.

Two people have died and one is in hospital as a result of what UK police believe could be a dangerous batch of ecstasy.

A teenager has been arrested in the UK after an elderly woman was allegedly raped in her home.

Flood waters are reported to be receding after the worst tidal surge for more than 60 years hit coastal towns along the east coast of Britain.

The bodies of three young children were found yesterday after a woman fell to her death at a car park.

Rock star Pete Doherty is to appear in court accused of letting his manager use his car without insurance, it emerged today.

A MAN obsessed with an Irish mother-of-three broke into her home and executed her with a bolt gun in front of her terrified daughters.

A 48-year-old man was tonight charged with the murders of five prostitutes in Ipswich, Suffolk Police said.

Detectives investigating the murder of five prostitutes in Suffolk, England were today continuing to question a 37-year-old man.

Detectives arrested a man today on suspicion of murdering five women working as prostitutes in Suffolk, England.

Inquests into the deaths of four of the murdered women working as prostitutes in England have been postponed, police said today.

POLICE hunting the murderer of the Ipswich prostitutes have repeatedly avoided the use of the term “serial killer”.

Suffolk Police said tonight they were investigating a report that a girl had gone missing.

Police in England will confirm today the identities of two more victims of the so-called Ipswich Ripper.

A FORENSIC psychologist last night said the signs were that police investigating the prostitute murders were now being “taunted” by a serial killer.

A detective investigating the murders of three prostitutes appealed to the killer today to give himself up.

Women were told today to stay away from a town’s red light district as detectives faced the possibility that a serial killer might have murdered four prostitutes.

The home of Soham accused Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr was “very clean” with little sign of smells such as dog or cigarettes, the court heard today.

British police were being called in to investigate the suspected theft of two copies of the eagerly awaited new Harry Potter book, author JK Rowling’s agent said today.

ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners last night criticised security at a British nuclear power station after protesters broke into the site.

AN inquest into the death of Moors murderer Myra Hindley will open today. The hearing will take place at Highpoint prison near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England at 3pm. It will be overseen by Greater Suffolk coroner Peter Dean.

Secrecy today surrounded the funeral arrangements for Moors Murderer Myra Hindley.

The death of a man whose body was found in a churchyard is being treated as suspicious, detectives said today.

An RAF Harrier jet crashed into the sea off the East Anglian coast near Lowestoft this afternoon, said the British Ministry of Defence.