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Giovanni Abbondandolo, 45, from Rochdale, has been jailed for 6 years and 8 months after trying to meet a 12-year-old girl in Manchester. He was previously jailed in 2007.

Andrew Burke has been charged with murder but has not yet entered a plea. Burke's solicitor said he 'accepted the responsibility' of killing Cassie Hayes in Merseyside.

Two British soldiers Lance corporal Mikko Vehvilainen, 33, and Private Mark Barrett, 24, and an unnamed civilian face charges under the Terrorism Act.

Metropolitan Police Constable Thomas Hooper denies two allegations of breaching standards of professional behaviour for stealing a colleague's biscuits.

Cambridge University graduate Matthew Falder prowled the internet anonymously, blackmailing scores of children and adults into committing obscene acts on camera.

A baby boy who was just 41-days-old at the time has had both his legs amputated after suffering abuse from his parents.

Venables was recalled to prison for the second time after over 1,000 child abuse images were found on his laptop.

A heroic skydiver plunged to his death after saving the life of a student whose equipment failed during a training exercise.

Student officer PC Mohammed Nadeem, who can barely swim himself, "just had to go in" when he saw a distressed man fall off a bridge into freezing water.

Steven McKenna has denied claims he raped a girl in Bridlington but was still found guilty of rape and sexual assault by Hull Crown Court.

Despite the emergence of multi-channel retail, digital disruption and the array of choice on the high street, shoppers in the UK and around the world are still expected to buy clothes according to rigid and outdated size definitions.

Paedophile football coach Barry Bennell described as "sheer evil" as he is sentenced to 31 years for 50 counts of child sex abuse.

Will the Labour Party pay the price at the polls for Corbyn's Czech connections?

UK residents marching to KFC for a feed of fried chicken are being turned away by locked doors and closure signs.

A member of the Bath Conservatives sent the tweet suggesting that parents should be able to feed their children for £10 a month.

The British Army is dealing with a manpower crisis despite a record 100,000 would-be recruits applying to join the Armed Forces.

Oxfam released its report into the Haiti scandal but redacted the names of aid workers involved.

The UK PM Theresa May says students in England face among the priciest university tuition in the world and often get poor value for money.

Staff at budget hotel chain Travelodge accused the father of a 14-year-old girl of being a paedophile after he and his daughter booked a room to visit his cancer-stricken mum.

Top Gear presenter Matt LeBlanc says the show will not insult the people in the countries they visit, as it has in the past.

A former Miss England, Katrina Hodge, who was dubbed 'Combat Barbie' when she joined the Army has revealed how she quit after years of sexist abuse.

Police have captured rapist and killer Keith Whitehouse, who had absconded from an open prison.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and other party hardliners regularly met with Eastern bloc agents, claims a former Czech spy.

Danielle Richardson, 24, was found stabbed in a flat in Manchester as a man fled the scene. Michael Marler, 37, appeared in court charged with her murder.

15-year-old boy and grandfather on way to football match killed after car is hit by train at level crossing in Horsham, West Sussex.

'Jeremy Corbyn knew I was a Soviet spy,' claims Czech diplomat Jan Sarkocy, accusing Labour leader of supplying information to communist regime under name of Agent Cob in 1987.

Michel Fourniret revealed that he killed Leeds University student Joanna Parrish and Marie-Ange Domece, a mentally handicapped teen who went missing in 1988.

Owen Scott, of Fawley, Hampshire, was jailed for life for trying to kill his three children and step-daughter by hitting them with a hammer then crashing a car into a wall at 92mph.

Center Parcs joins the South Bank Centre in withdrawing ads from the Daily Mail in response to a column about Tom Daley.