Footballer Ched Evans’s conviction for raping a 19-year-old woman has been referred to the Court of Appeal, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has said.

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The UK's Attorney General has ordered the Crown Prosecution Service to investigate whether criminal offences have been committed in relation to identifying the victim in the Ched Evans rape case.

Professional Footballers’ Association chief executive Gordon Taylor has issued a fresh apology for appearing to compare Ched Evans’ attempt to clear his name with the campaign for justice over the Hillsborough disaster.

Professional Footballers’ Association chief executive Gordon Taylor has apologised for appearing to compare Ched Evans’ attempt to clear his name with the Hillsborough disaster.

Oldham’s deal to sign convicted rapist Ched Evans has collapsed, a senior Oldham source has confirmed.

Footballer Ched Evans has issued an apology following the events that led to his conviction for raping a woman in a hotel room but has maintained his claim that he is innocent of the offence.

Angry protests are expected to grow today in a backlash over rapist Ched Evans’ return to football.

Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has said it welcomes the decision by the Professional Footballers Association of Ireland to remove a blog post which linked the Ched Evans rape case to the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six.

A lawyer for a body representing footballers has likened convicted rapist Ched Evans to the Guildford Four as a fourth high-profile Sheffield United patron resigned over the ongoing row.

The woman raped by footballer Ched Evans has been given a new identity and relocated after the “traumatic experience” of the attack and her subsequent naming on social networks.

Nine people today pleaded guilty to revealing online the identity of a woman raped by Welsh footballer Ched Evans.

Two people have been charged with revealing the identity of a woman raped by footballer Ched Evans online, the Crown Prosecution said.

Sheffield United and Wales’ striker Ched Evans was jailed for five years today after being convicted of raping a woman who was “too drunk to consent” to sex.

A jury in Britain has begun deliberations in the trial of two footballers accused of raping a woman who was “too drunk to consent” to sex.

Two British footballers “procured” a drunk teenage girl and raped her as two of their friends watched and filmed, a Welsh court has heard.

Environmental officers are today working to safely remove 40,000 litres of fuel from a stricken cargo ship which ran aground in rough seas off the coast of Wales, sparking the rescue of seven crew members.

'X Factor' bosses were tonight looking for a last-minute replacement for judge Kelly Rowland after it emerged she is too ill to appear on the show.

'X Factor' judge Kelly Rowland’s representatives today played down claims that the singer has fled after clashes with her show colleagues.

Ousted 'X Factor' contestant Sami Brookes has suggested that her former mentor Louis Walsh should make way for new celebrity talent on the judging panel.

An inquiry was under way in Britain today after an eight-year-old girl drowned at a holiday park.

TORY leader David Cameron laughed off being hit by an egg while out electioneering yesterday, dismissing it as the “first of the campaign”.

A man who was stabbed to death following a snowball fight was named today.

Bayern Munich midfielder Owen Hargreaves has again expressed his desire to move to England.

Two children found dead in their home in North Wales were both "asphyxiated'', a post mortem examination has revealed.

A FATHER watched in horror yesterday as his teenage son was killed along with three men when a car ploughed into a group of cyclists.

The UK’s third-largest bingo club business returned to the acquisition trail today with an £11m (€16m) deal for another operator.

Bangor City’s European hopes looked like ending at the first hurdle as they were edged out 2-1 by Latvians FC Dinaburg yesterday.

FIVE British police officers accused of making racist remarks in an undercover television documentary resigned yesterday.

Judith and Alan Kilshaw, the couple at the centre of the transatlantic Internet adoption row, have vowed to adopt another child from the United States.

John Prescott says he regrets the incident in which he punched an egg-throwing protester.

Conservative leader William Hague has become the latest high-profile British politician to have a close encounter with a foodstuff.

British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has this morning described his brawl with a farm protester as "frightening and regrettable".

John Prescott says he acted in self-defence when he lashed out at a protestor in north Wales.

A man arrested following a violent confrontation with Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has been released on police bail pending further enquiries.

John Prescott is reported to have thrown a punch at a demonstrator in Rhyl.

The body of James Hanratty has been reburied, five hours after being exhumed by police to collect DNA to determine whether he committed the A6 murder in England.