A police officer has been jailed for nine years after he sexually touched a vulnerable six-year-old girl while responding to a disturbance. Dean Dempster, 35, an officer for Greater Manchester Police ...

A man beat his partner and may have slept while she died on the floor next to his bed, a court has heard. Raj Sidpara, 50, admitted the manslaughter of his partner Tarnjeet Riaz, also known as ...

A banned driver from County Durham has been jailed over a police chase while at the wheel of a van heading in the wrong direction on a motorway ...

Specially trained sniffer dogs have helped to seize a haul of illegal tobacco products with a street value of £14,000 from retail premises across a city. Tobacco dogs Griff, Cooper and Bran followed ...

The King has held an audience with one of the possible contenders to become the next archbishop of Canterbury. Charles welcomed the Right Reverend Graham Usher, Bishop of Norwich, to Buckingham Palace ...

Rapper Nelly will not face drug charges following his arrest this summer at a St Louis-area casino, a prosecutor said. “We don’t believe the facts in this case warrant the issuing of charges,” St ...

Arsenal defender Ben White is set for a spell on the sidelines having undergone minor surgery on a knee issue, according to reports. White, 27, has seen his workload managed during the opening part of ...

Eight players withdrew from Carsley’s initial 26-man squad for this Nations League double-header. Declan Rice, Phil Foden, Bukayo Saka and Cole Palmer pulled out of the initial selection on Monday, as ...

Irish mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor has said that a woman who has accused him of raping her in a Dublin hotel is “full of lies”. Mr McGregor, who is facing an accusation in the civil ...

A serving police officer is to lose his cherished job with the force through his “irrational” behaviour with his partner as their ...