A self-confessed IRA bomb maker who was one of two men named in a landmark Granada TV programme in 1990 as one of those responsible for the Birmingham Pub bombings has issued an apology.

The Birmingham pub bombings coroner, hearing inquests into the deaths of 21 victims, has backed a bid for legal funding by bereaved families.

The Birmingham pub bombings coroner, hearing inquests into the deaths of 21 victims, has backed a bid for legal funding by bereaved families.

Fresh inquests into the victims of the Birmingham pub bombings are to get under way amid a war of words between lawyers and the British Government about legal funding.

Two serving prisoners have appeared in court in Britain charged with murdering a convicted child killer in jail.

A man with 20 previous convictions was today jailed for 11 and a half years for starting a massive fire that destroyed a 140-year-old furniture shop during last summer’s London riots.

A looter has been jailed for eleven and a half years for starting a huge fire that destroyed a 140-year-old furniture shop during last summer’s riots in London.

A man today admitted starting a massive fire which destroyed a family-run furniture shop during the UK riots last year.

RELATIVES of Ian Tomlinson stormed out of his inquest after the police officer who pushed the newspaper seller to the ground during the G20 protests told an inquest he wanted to “help the family”.

Family members of Ian Tomlinson were in tears today as an inquest jury was shown harrowing new video of the newspaper seller dying at the G20 protests.

An inquest into the death of Ian Tomlinson will start in March, nearly two years after he collapsed at the G20 protests, the City of London Corporation said today.

A British mother was jailed for six years today for killing her 20-month-old son by doping him to make him sleep.