The McCanns told a court of their “devastation, desperation, anxiety and pain” when a former Portuguese detective accused them of faking their daughter’s abduction and hiding her body.

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Two people being questioned after police in England rescued three alleged slavery victims, including a 30-year-old woman who spent her whole life in servitude, have been released on bail.

Prince Harry has deleted his Facebook account as rumours grow that more damaging revelations are on the way.

German detectives must sit and wait for up to a fortnight as their pursuit of David Haye is held up by red tape following Saturday’s brawl in Munich.

David Haye says he will assist the boxing authorities in their enquiries into his brawl with fellow heavyweight Dereck Chisora in Munich on Saturday night.

Sean Bourke broke out ‘traitor’ George Blake from prison in 1966, enabling him to flee to Moscow, says Richard Fitzpatrick

A TEENAGER killed in front of horrified shoppers at the St Stephen’s Day sales died from a “single stab wound to the heart”, police said last night.

Four police officers were injured, including three thought to have been stabbed, in an incident in London today.

SCOTLAND YARD last night dropped its bid to force the Guardian newspaper to reveal confidential sources for stories relating to the phone-hacking scandal.

SCOTLAND YARD staged a series of dawn swoops during preemptive strikes to avoid the Notting Hill Carnival becoming a victim of England’s rioting crisis.

SCOTLAND YARD will “bring their expertise” to the search for missing Madeleine McCann, the Home Office said last night.

British 'Night Stalker' Delroy Grant was jailed for life today for carrying out sex attacks on elderly people in a 17-year reign of terror.

A SCOTLAND YARD riot squad officer filmed knocking Ian Tomlinson to the ground will be told today if he faces prosecution over his death.

A FORMER British MI6 worker, who says he was “directed by voices”, faces a jail sentence after yesterday admitting charges of unlawfully disclosing top secret material.

SCOTLAND YARD will conduct “no further investigation” of allegations of phone tapping by the News of the World, assistant commissioner John Yates said last night.

Relatives of Jean Charles de Menezes will pursue a compensation package worth tens of thousands of pounds from Scotland Yard, sources have said.

Some of the surveillance officers staking out Jean Charles de Menezes's home did not have a picture of the July 21 suspect they were hunting, it was claimed today.

Actress Natascha McElhone is in mourning following the sudden death of her husband, plastic surgeon Martin Kelly.

A director is taking his film about the aftermath of the July 7 London bombings to the Cannes film festival.

Thousands of people are expected to arrive at a “climate change camp” near Heathrow Airport today.

THE man who helpedto establish the BritishSecret Service and provided the inspiration for James Bond’s boss in Ian Fleming’s books is at last being honoured in the county of his birth.

Two fully intact car bombs found in central London hold hundreds of clues about the people behind a suspected terrorist plot that could have killed hundreds.

Aintree is on the agenda for the Philip Hobbs-trained Lord Henry after his all-the-way romp in the Berkshire Life Novices’ Chase at Ascot.

A woman was taken to hospital with minor injuries today after a letter bomb exploded at an office in central London.

Thousands of pounds were spent on accommodation and travel to allow a police ombudsman’s investigator to keep a pet dog at his side.

A young mother of an eight-month-old baby and a 17-year-old youth were among 11 people charged in Britain tonight in connection with the alleged airliner bomb plot.

A 28-year-old man arrested in connection with Britain’s biggest cash robbery has been released on bail, police said tonight.

Phil Flynn acted as negotiator with Herrema kidnappers, writes Ryle Dwyer.

Authorities today released an Egyptian chemist detained for questioning following the July 7 bombings in London, an Interior Ministry official said.

SENIOR British police officers last night insisted there would be no change to a controversial shoot-to-kill policy after an innocent man was gunned down.

Muslim leaders have called for a review of police policy after the announcement that a man shot dead in a Tube station was not linked to Thursday’s attempted terror attacks.

Three teenage boys have been arrested over the murder of 15-year-old street robbery victim, Kieran Rodney-Davis, British police said today.

PRESIDENT George W Bush’s every movement is being monitored from a high-tech command centre in Scotland Yard.

SCOTLAND YARD yesterday reopened the investigation into the baffling disappearance of Britain’s youngest kidnap victim.

SCOTLAND Yard yesterday smashed an alleged cocaine cartel which detectives claim was the biggest drug-smuggling gang ever to operate in Britain.

The biggest prison break-out in British history could be made into a popular film, it was claimed tonight.

DISSIDENT republicans have formed new terror cells across Britain in a bid to wreck the peace process, it was claimed yesterday.

A gunman was arrested today after holding three women hostage at a bank just a few hundred yards from Buckingham Palace.

SCOTLAND YARD detectives with experience of major incidents have been drafted in to help the search for Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.

A British charity worker suspected of being a member of the al-Qaida terror group has been released by Pakistani authorities, the Foreign Office confirmed today.

British police investigating a bombing campaign in England have arrested a seventh person on suspicion of being a member of the dissident Republican group, the Real IRA.

Britain was one of 31 countries with offices in the World Trade Centre. It has now been confirmed that hundreds of British workers died in the attacks on Tuesday.