NATIONAL

Steve White claimed his colleagues had suspicions that members of the Freemasons had stood in the way of reforms to the police force in England and Wales.

The Metropolitan Police are investigating the murders of two teenagers and two 20-year-olds this morning as the capital's knife crime epidemic shows no sign of abating.

A woman claims she was coerced into prostitution at the age of 14 and hired to out to an array of men in Cambridge, including students at the university.

"Abbie is quite upset. She spent her Christmas money on that doll and now I have taken it away," the mother said.

100,000 ticket holders descended on the River Thames to see in 2018 while tens of thousands attended the Hogmanay celebrations in Edinburgh.

Woman said she was "embarrassed" after a nurse who identifies as trans was assigned to carry out her cervical smear test.

Mary Konye was jailed for 12 years for the attack in Dagenham, east London, in 2012.

Aaran Cadman, 23, was charged with possession of a controlled drug, assaulting a police officer and being drunk and disorderly.

Home Office confirmed it was discussing plan to use "border force special volunteers" to bolster border force, which carries out controls on goods and people entering the UK.

Alexandra Zurawaska, 16, was last seen at about 7pm on 25 December in South Yorkshire. It's feared she may have travelled to Sutton, in south-west London with an older man.

The Asda store in Barry, Wales encouraged shoppers to help themselves the trolley loads of free veg.

A dog-walker found the body of a man at on Brown's Bay in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside. Northumberland Police fear the man may have been a victim of Storm Dylan.

Twelve fire engines tackled the fire at a 12-storey apartment block in Joiner Street in Manchester's Northern Quarter.

The government has been accused of withholding £2.5bn earmarked for charities, much of which is to be recouped from the sale of assets built for the 2012 Olympic Games.

Following four terror attacks in London in 2017 and the threat level at 'severe', the Metropolitan Police plans to have fewer officers on London's streets on New Year's Eve.

Counter Terrorism officers in South Yorkshire have arrested a fifth man as part of an ongoing investigation.

A report predicts millennials will enjoy the biggest and most wide-reaching inheritance boom of any post-war generation, but that it still won't be enough to even out inequality.

Philip Clements sold his only home in Kent to buy a lavish apartment for his young partner to give him financial security.

Metropolitan Police detectives are appealing for witnesses after two teenage boys were shot in a Plaistow fast food restaurant on Friday 29 December.

"Had he walked into the front of my lorry, I wouldn't have been able to stop in time," the driver said.

UK-based Bitcoin exchange Exmo, took to Twitter to inform its users about having suffered a DDoS attack just days after one of its employees was kidnapped.

Andy Sami Star, 31, and Farhad Salah, 22, both of Iraqi origin, were arrested on 19 December in Yorkshire. They are alleged to have been in possession of a 'low explosive black powder'.

Foreign diplomats in the capital have racked up a total of £108.6m in unpaid congestion charge fines.

A manhunt has been launched in Rotherham for a suspected serial sex attacker who is alleged to have carried out three assaults on Boxing Day.

Concerns have been raised that the Brexit Secretary David Davis is being sidelined ahead of trade talks which are set to begin next month.

Drunk tanks could be rolled out across the UK as the head of the NHS warned that the country's primary health body does not stand for the "National Hangover Service".

Up to 800 passengers have been stranded at Gatwick Airport after Nigerian airline Med-View cancelled flights to Lagos.

Northumbria Police have charged Mark Smith, 41, with the murder of Jillian Grant whose body was found in a North Shields house on Christmas day.

A teenager, Simon Evans, convicted of beating a rough-sleeper to death when he was 14 was denied a jail term cut by a High Court judge.