AT least 2,600 women have been trafficked into England and Wales and forced to work as prostitutes, a snapshot report published yesterday claims.

TEN police officers are under investigation for the way they handled the case of a mother and her disabled daughter who were found dead in a burnt-out car after years of abuse from youths, a watchdog said yesterday.

BRITISH home secretary Alan Johnson said yesterday there could be no excuse for failings that led to the deaths of a vulnerable mother and daughter after suffering years of abuse on their Leicestershire estate.

The anguished parents of missing Madeleine McCann will fly to Germany today to continue the search for their daughter.