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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.

The Institute for Public Policy Research has called for the creation of a new customs union within which the UK would be able to opt out of EU rules in specific areas.

Prince Harry will soon be making his editorial debut, heading up an edition of the BBC's flagship morning radio news programme, Today, starring a very special guest.

It has been revealed that despite a cut in the speed limit, there has been an increase in deaths in one region of the UK.

Divorcee Alun Jones, 51, from Newport, South Wales, bled to death on his bedroom floor after committing hara-kiri when he returned from a trip to Japan.

John Walshaw, 56, from Grimsby, was branded a 'paedo' after being spotted with a half-dressed 15-year-old girl and a bottle of wine down an alley.

Those getting into the Christmas spirit this winter have been warned by Network Rail to take care while travelling by train, following a spate of drunken incidents.

Hakeem Hussain died from cardiac arrest when he was left outside a house in Birmingham. His mother, 35, and great-uncle, 56, were arrested for neglect.

Doctors found an 'unusually large' 77cm-long sex toy that a patient had 'lost control' of, because he was intoxicated, according to a BMJ Case Report.

Southampton council considers free passage through road tolls for electric vehicle drivers in bid to clean up air quality.

Clubber Sam Cook, from Crosby, was stabbed to death on 21 October while celebrating his 21st birthday in the basement of the Empire nightclub in Liverpool city centre.

The eleven-strong gang carried out 49 drone flights and 'throw-overs' into British jails mainly consisting of pre-ordered drugs but also tools, phones and a TV box.

Birmingham Crown Court heard that Simon Bramhall branded "SB" on the organs of a man and a woman undergoing transplant operations at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

Phillip Daniels was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 22 years at Liverpool Crown Court after being found guilty of the murder of Paul Millea.

Armed thugs burst into jewellers in broad daylight and attacked a shop assistant after tricking staff into opening the door at SP Green in the Jewellery Quarter of Birmingham.

Jinal Pethad, 29, from Edgware, London, opened 105 sham accounts for two Moldovan nationals involved in the scam using fake ID documents.

Samuel Armstrong, 24, an aide for South Thanet MP Craig Mackinlay, allegedly raped a woman in his boss's office in the Palace of Westminster in October 2016.

Demi Pearson, 14, Brandon, 8, and sister Lacie, 7, died in the fire on Jackson Street in Walkden, Salford, with 5 people now arrested in connection with the suspected arson attack.

The gang have been prosecuted for drug-dealing, firearms, violence and kidnappings including the torture of a man over an unpaid cocaine debt.

A man, known only as Anthony, said his 'boyhood dream' has been destroyed after the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) prevented him taking a trainee pilot scheme with EasyJet.

The Good Country Index released an updated version of its global ranking of countries' contribution to the common good of humanity. UK's ranking drops second year in a row.

Sophie Warrener, who votes Conservative, posted a tweet about her and her best friend Rose, who votes Labour, to make a point about cross-political friendships.

Footage captured in London, UK and Leiden, Netherlands, on 10 December showed similar scenes as passengers were forced to help push buses up snowy inclines.

Amanda Leather, 28, from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, smoked cannabis and drank alcohol with a 15-year-old boy before having sexual activity with the child.

Charlie Pearce, from Leicester, had been out celebrating his 17th birthday when he raped and bludgeoned his victim in Leicester's Victoria Park last year.

Merseyside resident Alexander Dobbie was handed a suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to two counts of making indecent images and one count of possessing them.

The boy was burned with cigarettes during a 36-hour ordeal prior to the alleged sex attack in a disabled toilet in the Bristol's Children's Hospital, Bristol.

Firms that run the government's controversial PIP disability tests have come under fire after it was revealed that they only employ four doctors between them.

Stephen Stott, 23, and Dean Jones, 34, were arrested after US Homeland Security investigators discovered large groups of paedophiles watching rape videos together.