Scores of police officers including a serving chief constable are being investigated over the Hillsborough disaster in what will be the biggest ever inquiry into police action, it has emerged.

The Chief Constable of West Midlands Police has warned that the existence of a “significant” terror threat in the region is inevitable.

A public inquiry into the loyalist murder of solicitor Rosemary Nelson is getting underway today more than six years after her death.

An inquiry into how child killer Ian Huntley slipped through the UK police’s intelligence net today revealed a “deeply shocking” catalogue of errors.

A car bomb in Birmingham city centre would have caused ‘‘very serious loss of life’’ if it had detonated fully, police said tonight.