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Conservative MP Charlie Elphicke has been referred to police following 'serious allegations'

Dover MP Charlie Elphicke has been suspended.

'Vile' Lithuanian drug gang used waterboard torture on man they imprisoned at gunpoint

Lee Torrance was attacked at the home of Aivaras Sepronas and Jurgita Makaroviene in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, in 2015. The gang has been given jail sentences totalling 50 years.

LGBT rights campaigner Julian Aubrey found brutally stabbed to death in London flat

Julian Aubrey, a sexual abuse counsellor, was knifed to death in his home in Earl's Court on Monday (30 October). The 55-year-old was a former co-chairman of an LGBT liaison group.

'Prison would harm my child': Mother who ran £150k prostitution and trafficking ring is spared jail

Ting Li Lu and Li Gao have been spared jailed after pimping out illegally trafficked women as part of a £150,000 prostitution ring in the south of England and Wales.

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Dame Judi Dench says 'scandalous' allegations against 'great friends' are hard

Dame Judi Dench admitted she was conflicted over the Hollywood sex scandal involving friends and associates such as Harvey Weinstein, but expressed her support for the victims.

Edwina Currie dismisses Westminster sex allegations as 'hysteria' during BBC's This Week

Former Conservative minister Edwina Currie dismissed the sex allegations rocking Westminster as 'hysteria' during BBC's This Week.

Drug and alcohol father-of-two jailed five years for raping sleeping 15-year-old girl

A father-of-two, who admitted to having had eight bottles of beer and three to four lines of cocaine, was sentenced to five years in jail for the rape of a 15-year-old schoolgirl.

Student raped a 12-year-old girl he met online telling her he 'wanted to make a sex tape' with her

David Nwosu, a student at Keele University, began grooming the 12-year-old online, even telling her that he loved her. The 21-year-old has been jailed for 5 years.

Labour suspends veteran MP over 'allegations'

Kelvin Hopkins, MP for Luton North since 1997, was suspended while the party investigates allegations.

Man 'with bladed weapon' arrested by armed police after 'hostage situation' in Hull

Humberside Police arrested a man who allegedly had a 'bladed weapon' and was 'behaving aggressively' in a home in Bransholme, Hull.

Muslim convert tried to commit 'suicide by rape' in hope woman would kill him in revenge attack

Garry Brand, 49, from Perth, Scotland, has been jailed after he held a knife to a woman's throat while attacking her in his home in June.

Incredible grandma, 90, was stabbed in the neck but pulled the blade out and threw it at attacker

Abosede Adeyinka was jailed for 21 years after being found guilty of attacking a pensioner during an attempted burglary.

Hans Sojhe, who is charged with violent disorder, is circled in a still from the video about to throw a metal pole into a section of the crowd outside a club in Bristol

CCTV of Bristol grime night brawl shows 100 clubbers use chains and barriers as weapons

A jury was shown shocking CCTV footage of over 100 clubbers locked in a mass brawl using chairs, metal barriers and poles as weapons outside a nightclub.

Suspected burglar rescued after getting stuck in takeaway extractor fan for seven hours

Jaws of life used to free man trapped in West Midlands takeaway after allegedly attempting to break in

Ex-Tory politician jailed and held in Dubai for two years over £2 taxi fare

Former Conservative Part candidate David Ballantine was incarcerated after a mix-up with a taxi driver in Dubai leading to the confiscation of his passport and a jail sentence.

Grenfell Tower conman bagged £12,500 in donations after lying about family dying in fire

Anh Nhu Nguyen admits fraud offences after claiming he escaped from tower block fire while wife and child died.

'Nasty' attack video of man battered with crowbar in street brawl - Police appeal for witnesses

Police hunt man seen repeatedly hitting victim with metal tool as he lies on floor in violent street attack in Luton.

Prison chaplain ditches old Bibles with thin pages because inmates keep smoking them

The chaplain of Erlestoke prison in Wiltshire is ditching his current Bibles for ones made of thicker paper because inmates keep using them as cigarettes.

Female employee forced to parade naked in office to boost morale of salesmen in Wolf of Wall Street-style stunt

A naked woman paraded through an office in Warsaw, Poland, to boost morale in a Wolf of Wall Street-style stunt set up by her boss.

Sick UK internet paedophile caught filling in 'application form' for secret child abuse club

Predator from Luton who was caught with an "application form for a secret paedophile club" on his computer has been handed a two-year suspended sentence.

NHS planning for hospital closures and other cutbacks to meet increasing demand and fight health budget deficit

'Worrying' number of EU nurses and midwives still don't want to work in UK after Brexit

Figures show number of European hospital workers applying to come to Britain has fell by 89% since September 2016 .

Probe launched over alleged Russian tampering with Brexit vote via Facebook

Electoral Commission will look at whether the two US social media giants were used by Russian agents

Damning 'Christian girl in Muslim foster care' claims are false, says Tower Hamlets investigation

Tower Hamlets finds no evidence girl was encouraged to speak Arabic and had crucifixes removed after being placed with Muslim carer.

Mother accuses school of 'discrimination' for ordering her Rastafarian son to cut off his hair

Tuesday Flanders has accused Fulham Boys School of discrimination after her 12-year-old Rastafarian son Chikayzea was ordered to cut off his dreadlocks or face suspension.

Gavin Williamson Announced As New Defence Secretary

Gavin Williamson replaces Michael Fallon as defence secretary

Appointment of Gavin Williamson comes just hours after Sir Michael Fallon suddenly resigned from his post after three and a half years in the role.

'The dam has broken': Ruth Davidson warns that Westminster locker room culture 'has got to stop'

The Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson spoke following the shock resignation of Secretary of State for Defence Sir Michael Fallon.

CIA Osama Bin Laden files: All you need to know about Osama's personal diary and more

The files feature a trove of videos, some of which featured movies like Ice Age and Chicken Little, childrens' cartoons like Tom and Jerry, alongside graphic videos of beheadings.

Shocking images show London acid attack victim left partially blind by two thugs

Musa Miah, 23, and Syed Ibrahim, 21, were left with life-changing injuries after a corrosive substance was thrown in their faces outside a grocery store in east London.

Teenage boys, 14, charged with 'conspiracy to kill' over alleged terror plot in North Yorkshire

The two 14-year-old boys from Northallerton, North Yorkshire, were held at a police station in West Yorkshire. They will appear before Leeds Magistrates' Court on 2 November.