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Labour MP Stephen Timms said that delivery workers on mopeds refuse to travel in certain parts of the city for fear of being attacked.

Karl Anderson, 29, was sentenced to 16 weeks imprisonment after pleading guilty to racially aggravated common assault outside Manchester City's training ground.

Former police officer Andrew Stevenson, of Morriston, Swansea, screamed 'she has taken everything from me' as he launched into the attack in September 2017.

Heroin addict Kieron West from Leicester left the corpse of his postman dad Peter in his house for three weeks and spent his wages. He has been jailed for 40 months.

First Secretary of State Damian Green has resigned his cabinet position after an investigation into allegations he was found to have kept pornography on a parliamentary computer.

At an annual conference on robot relationships, a cognitive science researcher claimed that humans were unlikely to 'maintain power' in human-robot relationships.

Late-night stunt at London Underground station believed to be Stratford put driver and passengers at risk.

A new study conducted by a renowned intelligence researcher has suggested that IQ gains in many western nations is reversing, particularly among the brightest children.

Clip shows security guard kicking and throwing man's possessions outside Manchester city centre branch in wake of homeless crisis.

Police were called to a Cardiff school to calm a group of parents angered by a headteacher who is said to have "raged" at pupils over their nativity performances.

Noel Brown and his daughter Marie both murdered in Deptford flat as police reveal shocking details from scene of crime.

A fishery in Oxfordshire has become the subject of legal action after it barred Eastern Europeans from entering.

Deputy headteacher Alan Hawe wrote three-page letter outlining reasons for axe killings of wife and children, inquest hears.

Natasha Smith allegedly took a kitchen knife to husband Neil Jex after a day of drinking that began with a festive meal.

RICS data shows house prices to fall in the capital and the south-east next year and drop could spark nationwide fall.

Police questioning a number of suspects in relation to planning of possible terror attacks in the UK.

Jamie Sierra-Ferrucho has been sentenced to eight months in jail for groping two women and touching himself inappropriately on the Tube.

EU officials have revealed two key pieces of information ahead of the second phase of Brexit negotiations.

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.