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Photos of seriously injured acid attack victim Phoebe Georgiou used in court to try lessen sentence for barbaric attack.

A cheeky monkey, a couple of bears getting frisky, a fox urinating into a golf hole – the year's silliest photography contest has a serious side.

Schoolgirl Amika George has spearheaded the fight against period poverty this year, launching an 85,000-strong petition and organising a protest in Westminster.

Cuts are being blamed for the UK not having any of its major warships on operation overseas for the first time in living memory.

Scotland Yard will review all its rape and sex abuse probes after another trial collapsed amid claims police withheld evidence.

Average rents in London records fifth decline this year after falling 1.7% month-on-month in November.

Homeless drug-user Aaron Barley, 24, admitted to stabbing Tracey Wilkinson, 50, and her teenage son Pierce at their home in Stourbridge, West Midlands, in March this year.

Errol Hanson, 51, from Catford, south London, knifed Mohammed Savare more than 50 times after the burglar headbutted and punched him, Southwark Crown Court was told.

John Simpson, 25, told officers "they don't call me Jihadi John for nothing – I've been done for terrorism" as officers tried to coax him out of the vehicle cage.

Former boyfriend of Towie star Ferne McCann jailed for 'barbaric' acid attack in Dalston nightclub which injured more than 20

The third International Congress on Love and Sex with Robots was due to take place at Goldsmiths University but has relocated to an unknown location in north London.

Miraz Triggs, 46, will stand before Chelmsford Crown Court in January after admitting making, possessing and distributing indecent images of children.

Drug smuggler Jason Waterman has been jailed after landing in an airfield carrying £1.2m of cocaine.

Britain's only aircraft carrier, the HMS Queen Elizabeth, was undergoing sea trials when a leak was discovered by engineers.

A woman had her throat slit by her new husband after he became obsessed with her previous partners and refused to believe she was a virgin.

The retail brand is required to put £9m into its pension fund for the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) to agree to its restructuring plan.

Home Secretary Amber Rudd has written an open letter to all EU citizens that are currently living in the UK.

Brexit secretary David Davis had hoped to reach a bespoke trade deal with the European Union, similar to the one implemented by Canada.

Three men from Sheffield and one from Chesterfield were arrested on suspicion of terror offences during pre-planned operation.

Siblings reported missing after being left along at north London home when mother was admitted to hospital.

The Labour Party leader said he was appalled by the Westminster sex scandal which alleges sexual assault by a number of his party's members.

The Royal Navy's £3.1bn aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth has a leak so serious 200 litres pour into the vessel every hour.

Diane Chilcott, 40, and Daniel Pusey, 21, plied girls aged from 13 to 15 with cigarettes and alcohol before driving them to hotels, where they were sexually exploited.

Wendy Thomas, 50, from Cardiff in South Wales, was stopped by border control officers in October 2016 at the Eurotunnel terminal with 3 illegal immigrants in their car.

X-rated glamour model Chloe Hammond was jailed for five years for biting part of a woman's ear off during a road rage attack.

Daniel Aimson, 36, formerly an officer with Greater Manchester Police (GMP) was at the head of a drugs gang selling cannabis in Manchester and North Wales.

Christopher Parker, 33, who has 84 previous convictions, attacked 91-year-old Audrey Bremner in a street mugging 100 metres from her home in Blyth, Northumberland.

A man has murdered his wife after he received a letter alleging she had been having an affair. He stabbed her in the neck multiple times before committing suicide.

The far-right party Britain First and its leaders have had their Twitter accounts suspended amid a crackdown by the social media company on "hateful and abusive" speech.