A police officer serving with the Met in London has been jailed for four years after having sex with a child rape victim he met online.

A judge has demanded an urgent review into “what went wrong” after prosecutors dropped the case against medics accused over the death of a woman at an abortion clinic four years ago.

Parts of London have higher rates of tuberculosis (TB) than countries such as Rwanda, Eritrea and Iraq, according to a report.

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The family of murdered schoolgirl Alice Gross have told a coroner there is a “public interest” in knowing what checks were conducted when convicted killer Arnis Zalkalns was allowed into Britain.

A doctor and two nurses are due to appear in a London court charged with the manslaughter of a 32-year-old Irish woman who died hours after having an abortion at the Marie Stopes International clinic in Ealing.

Media group Trinity Mirror is closing seven newspapers as it shifts much of its business online.

A decomposed body found in woodland on Saturday is that of Arnis Zalkalns – the prime suspect in the Alice Gross murder investigation, Scotland Yard said.

Police searching for Latvian builder Arnis Zalkalns – the prime suspect in the murder of schoolgirl Alice Gross – have found a body, sources said.

Police frogmen are continuing to search a river near to where missing British teenager Alice Gross was last seen as a knife found in the water is sent for forensic analysis.

No evidence that Alice Gross has been harmed

Detectives searching for missing teenager Alice Gross have formally requested full details of the murder conviction against the prime suspect in her disappearance, Scotland Yard confirmed.

The hunt for missing schoolgirl Alice Gross has led to the biggest search operation since the 7/7 bombings, Scotland Yard said.

Detectives in Britain have revealed that a Latvian builder they are searching for in connection with the disappearance of schoolgirl Alice Gross is a convicted murderer.

Detectives have revealed that a Latvian builder they are searching for in connection with the disappearance of British schoolgirl Alice Gross is a convicted murderer.

Police in London have made a second arrest over the disappearance of 14-year-old Alice Gross.

Blue star Lee Ryan was joined by his bandmates in court today as he pleaded guilty to failing to provide a specimen and to criminal damage – after he urinated on a police cell floor.

Police intervened after North Korean reportedly told a London hairdresser to take down a discount haircuts advert featuring leader Kim Jong-Un.

Blue’s Lee Ryan has been charged in connection with a driving incident.

Britney Spears has hinted she is rehearsing for a "top secret" new video.

Marriage between a man and woman is “sorely needed” in today’s society and it could soon be “too late” to save that union, the leader of the Roman Catholic church in England and Wales has said.

Nando’s profits increased last year as the peri-peri chicken restaurant avoided the impact of the economic downturn.

A year ago England was engulfed by riots but the UK government has done nothing to tackle the issues that sparked them, writes Siôn Simon

One of seven people being held in an investigation into a suspected terror plot has been released without charge.

Police in Britain have arrested a seventh person as part of an ongoing investigation into a suspected terror plot.

The teenager who killed British pensioner Richard Mannington Bowes during the summer riots was sentenced to eight years’ detention today.

A teenager who killed a pensioner during the summer riots in Britain will be sentenced alongside his mother today.

A 16-year-old boy will appear at the Old Bailey today accused of murdering a pensioner during the London riots.

Monks must be stripped of control at a leading Catholic school after decades of child sex abuse, an independent inquiry said today.

A 16-YEAR-OLD boy was yesterday ordered to stand trial for the murder of a pensioner who confronted rioters in London as British judges and prosecutors used tough punishment and name-and- shame tactics against hundreds of participants in the mayhem.

A 16-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of a man attacked during the London riots.

David Cameron was today forced to deny a rift with police over the handling of the devastating riots that swept England.

The death toll from the violent disorder that swept across England rose today after a man attacked by rioters as he attempted to stamp out a fire in west London died in hospital.

BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron, addressing an emergency session of the House of Commons, promised the Government would pay to compensate the victims of the disorder while retaining a reinforced police presence in London.

BLAZING violence that stunned London for three days spread to urban centres across England despite the enormous police crackdown restoring a sense of order to the country’s capital.

As well as scenes of trouble across several London boroughs, “copycat” looting and rioting was experienced as far afield as Birmingham, Liverpool, Bristol and Nottingham.

STUNNED Londoners counted the cost of the pillaging and tried to clear up the mess yesterday as fears grew of what lay ahead for them last night.

Ugly scenes of violence, rioting and looting have spread across England since erupting three days ago.

Police chiefs and political leaders were struggling to restore calm to England’s streets today after riots spread across the country.

RIOTERS were rampaging across Britain’s capital again last night as politicians and police chiefs tried desperately to curb the “sheer criminality”.

CARDINAL Newman, who is beatified yesterday by Pope Benedict XVI, scandalised Victorian England when he converted from the Church of England to Catholicism, drawing condemnation from many parts of British society.

THERE has been much media coverage lately of the annual Michael Collins commemoration at Béal na mBláth.