The inquiry into alleged child abuse by Jimmy Savile is now a formal criminal investigation involving other living people, Scotland Yard said today.

Jimmy Savile’s alleged catalogue of abuse could have spanned six decades and included around 60 victims, police said.

Jimmy Savile's headstone will be broken up and sent to landfill after it was removed late last night.

The headstone on Jimmy Savile’s grave has been removed after his family requested it be taken away out of “respect to public opinion”.

Scotland Yard’s race row deepened today as three officers were referred to the police watchdog over comments to colleagues.

A mother who killed her son with a salt overdose because she wanted attention was jailed for five years today.

PAEDOPHILES are swapping thousands of hardcore images of child sex abuse in a new form of computer child pornography.

British police were tonight sifting through suspected cyber child porn seized in a series of raids across the country.