The Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales is facing calls to resign after she was forced into a U-turn over her decision not to charge former MP Greville Janner for alleged child sex crimes.

Katie Hopkins has been accused of behaving in “a dangerously provocative way” after she suggested Pakistani men in the Rochdale area were sex abusers.

Leon Brittan, a former senior minister in the government of Margaret Thatcher as well as vice-president of the European commissioner, has died from cancer, his family said.

A campaigning British MP has called for the reinvestigation of the suspicious deaths more than 20 years ago of two whistleblowers who he believes had significant information relating to organised child abuse.

The head of one of Britain’s biggest police forces is facing calls to stand down amid a criminal probe in relation to his role in an investigation into a suspected sex offender.

Rolf Harris’s reputation was left in tatters as police considered fresh allegations against him amid calls for tributes and honours to the disgraced entertainer to be removed.

The British Government should take steps to claw back some of the pay-off given to a former council chief executive who presided over a sickening grooming scandal, an MP has said.