Thieves targeted the home of the late presenter and television personality Peaches Geldof, police have confirmed.

The husband of Peaches Geldof found her slumped dead on a bed at their family home after she had recently taken heroin, an inquest has heard.

A runaway dog has been found 50 miles from home after jumping on a train.

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

Tottenham are yet to decide whether to make an improved offer for West Ham striker Craig Bellamy after an initial bid, believed to be around £6m, was turned down.

Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp believes clubs will want to cut their wage bills when the transfer window opens, raising hopes of bringing players to White Hart Lane on loan.

More than half a million spectators are expected to descend on central London today as the Tour de France, the world’s biggest annual sporting event, hits town.

Lee Bowyer has brought West Ham some good news at last by putting himself in line to face Tottenham at Upton Park on Sunday after making his comeback from a dislocated shoulder.

Dean Ashton has been forced to wait a little longer for his West Ham return after the club decided he will not play in tonight’s reserve-team match at Gravesend and Northfleet.

Singer Pete Doherty will have an implant fitted to help him kick his drug habit, he told a court today.

Teenage beauty Maria Sharapova today became the first Russian ever to win Wimbledon – and immediately tried to phone her mother in Florida with the news from the centre court.

A high speed Eurostar train today heralded this weekend’s opening of the first stage of the UK’s long awaited Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) by smashing the London-Paris rail journey time record.

At least 50 Parisians have died of heat-related illnesses after a week of record-setting temperatures, a French medical expert says.

First Division Millwall opened their pre-season programme with a 3-1 win at Gravesend & Northfleet tonight.

The funerals of a mother and her two children bludgeoned to death by her policeman husband are taking place today.

A policeman who bludgeoned to death his wife and two children with a claw hammer will be buried separately.

Detectives are attempting to discover what drove a policeman to killing his wife and two of his sons with a claw hammer before taking his own life.

The bodies of a policeman, his wife and two of their children have been found after an apparent murder-suicide.

A dog has been given a football fan of the year award.