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Britain set to spend £45m on Calais border to keep France on side for Brexit talks
As well as footing the bill for extra security, Britain is set to take in more child migrants as well.
Jealous husband made hoax bomb threats to pub to ruin wife's night out
Mo Ahmed, 42, admitted making two hoax calls saying that a bomb was about to explode at The Duke of Wellington pub in Minehead, Somerset, that lead to 155 customers evacuated.
Amelia Blake: British backpacker found dead in 'murder-suicide' next to boyfriend in Sydney
Police believe Amelia Blake, 24, who had been in Australia for 8 months, was killed by her 30-something boyfriend in a flat above a Persian restaurant.
Life sentence for man who killed teenage girl in 'snuff movie fantasy' sex game and hid body in wardrobe
Ashley Foster, 24, from Dudley, had only been released from prison three days before he strangled 17-year-old Megan Bills in his hostel in Brierley Hill.
Imam performed sex acts on children after buying them sweets and clothes, court told
Noor Alam, 34, has appeared at Swansea Crown Court to deny 14 counts of sexual assault against children under the age of 13, up until the summer of last year.
New Tory vice chair says unemployed should have vasectomies to avoid UK 'drowning in wasters'
Ben Bradley, appointed the vice chair for youth in last week's reshuffle, said the UK would drown in a 'vast sea of unemployed wasters' if jobless people had too many kids.
'Woman beater' bludgeoned Muslim convert wife to death with hammer and burned her body
Akshar Ali stopped his wife Sinead Wooding from seeing her family before she was bludgeoned with a hammer and stabbed 6 times.
Teens who bludgeoned homeless man to death with meat cleaver and fence post jailed for life
Alex Macdonald and Charlie White, both 19, have been jailed for murdering Razvan Sirbu at the Loose Valley Conservation Area in Tovil, near Maidstone on 6 May 2017.
Woman kidnapped and gang-raped in broad daylight in Clacton-on-Sea cemetery
The woman was snatched and driven to a cemetery in the middle of the day before being raped by three men.
Westminster terrorist Khalid Masood 'took steroids' before murderous rampage
Terrorist Khalid Masood had used anabolic steroids before he drove a rental car across Westminster Bridge killing 4 then stabbed officer Keith Palmer to death outside Parliament.
Police hunt 'crossbow killer' after man dies in attack at home
Victim has been identified as 30-year-old Shane Gilmer from Southburn, East Yorkshire
M62 motorway closed in both directions after 'police incident'
West Yorkshire Police say emergency services are dealing with an 'ongoing incident'
Teen bought car bomb from dark web to kill his parents who disapproved of his girlfriend
Gurtej Singh Randhawa, 19, from Wolverhampton, has been jailed for eight years after he was caught when he tried to import explosives to kill his parents.
Trump 'cancels visit to UK amid fears he won't be made welcome' after spat with May
Reports suggest that US President Donald Trump has cancelled a trip to the UK next month, which would be the first time he has visited Great Britain since he took office.
There has been a 722% increase in Brits applying for French citizenship since Brexit
Number of applications soars to more than 3,000 as Britons grab chance to stay in Europe and avoid post-Brexit uncertainty.
WikiLeaks says Julian Assange 'must be released' as UK rejects diplomatic status appeal
The UK Foreign Office has rejected an appeal from Ecuador requesting diplomatic status be granted to WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange, who has lived in its London embassy for years.
Majority of UK residents don't trust broadband advertising, new figures show
Broadband users are feeling misled about promises made by telecommunication companies, including download speeds and monthly costs.
University to investigate secret eugenics conference on campus attended by Toby Young
Toby Young attended last year's London Conference on Intelligence which was run by an honorary senior lecturer at University College London (UCL).
Mum-of-six pretended her child had incurable cystic fibrosis to scam £170k in benefits
Rebecca Walker, from Leeds, has been jailed for 21 months for illegally claiming £176,000 in tax credits, carers' and disability allowances to fund 'luxuries'.
Son tried to kill parents by poisoning apple strudel before shooting himself in foot with crossbow
Richard Hignett, 32, of Wootton, Bedfordshire, admitted administering drugs to enable the murder of his parents. He has been sentenced to an indefinate hospital order.
Woman walks into police station saying she killed her father years ago and buried him in back garden
Police have launched a murder inquiry and started digging up a suburban garden after a 63-year-old woman told police she had killed her father 'a number of years ago'.
Lego washes up on Britain's beaches after Storm Eleanor
Clean-up operations are taking place in many of Britain's beaches as debris and rubbish continues to be washed up in the wake of Storm Eleanor.
Dying man was dumped naked in shallow grave after being strangled by his boss, court hears
Richard Spottiswood, 34, and Lucy Burn, 29, have denied murdering Darren Bonner, 24, following a furious row about drugs at Cresswell Towers caravan park, Northumberland.
Isis-supporting couple who met on Muslim dating site planned Christmas terror attack in UK
Asylum seeker Munir Mohammed volunteered for a 'lone wolf' mission and drafted in the help of pharmacist Rowaida El-Hassan, who he met on SingleMuslim.com.
Britain braced for renewed terrorist attacks in 2018
Britons more pessimistic of attack by terrorists than people in US, France, Germany and Turkey, reveals Ipsos-Mori poll.
British retailers sign up to voluntary acid ban sale to teenagers to deter attacks
British stores including Tesco, Waitrose and B&Q have banned the sale of acids to customers under the age of 18 to crack down on crimes involving corrosive substances
'Black cab rapist' John Worboys could face fresh prosecutions as Met reveals it dropped 19 charges
Black cab driver John Worboys, 60, has spent 9 years and 9 months in prison for drugging and sexually assaulting 12 women, and raping another woman.
Man who filmed pet pug giving Nazi salutes 'said gas the Jews 23 times' in YouTube video
Mark Meechan, 30, on trial at Airdrie Court, is accused of committing a hate crime by posting a video of him saying 'Sieg Heil' and forcing his dog to perform Nazi salutes.
89-year-old great-grandmother with Alzheimer's 'pushed onto her bed and raped' in her own home
The vulnerable woman was raped in her home in the Rossmore area of Poole, Dorset, after 10pm on Saturday (30 December). Dorset Police say no arrests have been made.
UK weather: Britain ready for plummeting temperatures as Storm Eleanor leaves
Freezing weather is set to return to the UK as the remnants of Storm Eleanor leave the British Isles.

