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Two charged after 21-year-old stabbed to death while celebrating his birthday
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.
Gang used drones to fly into jails £1.2m worth of drugs, phones and a Freeview box
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.
Liver surgeon admits burning his initials on patients during transplant operations
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.
Thug stabbed 'love rival' to death with 'scissors' and then went for a haircut
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.
CCTV shows violent £250k jewellery shop raid using hammer after they posed as customers
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.
Barclays banker jailed for helping cyber criminals launder over £2.5m stolen using malware
Jinal Pethad, 29, from Edgware, London, opened 105 sham accounts for two Moldovan nationals involved in the scam using fake ID documents.
Tory MP's chief of staff 'called woman a bitch then repeatedly raped her in Westminster office'
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.
Family were 'living under threat' before suspected arson killed three children in house fire
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.
Drugs mob behind gangland shootings dubbed 'the most sophisticated' jailed by Scots police
The gang have been prosecuted for drug-dealing, firearms, violence and kidnappings including the torture of a man over an unpaid cocaine debt.
Man is barred from becoming airline pilot because he has HIV
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.
Brexit UK and Trump's America drop in ranking of countries doing good for humanity
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.
Aspiring Tory MP sent rape and death threats after sharing message of friendship with Labour bestie
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.
'Gimme a push': Hero passengers filmed pushing buses in the snow
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.
Female paedophile seduced boy, 15, with cannabis texting him saying she was having 'dirty thoughts'
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.
Man who tried to murder victim on his 17th birthday with paving slab was 'fixated' with violent rape
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.
Grandfather who had conversations about child sex abuse with another paedophile is spared jail
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.
Teenagers accused of sexually assaulting boy with a toilet brush handle and suffocating him
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.
Private firms delivering disability benefits tests for 3 million claimants employ only four doctors.
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.
British paedophiles jailed after global investigation into app which posts shocking live child rape
Stephen Stott, 23, and Dean Jones, 34, were arrested after US Homeland Security investigators discovered large groups of paedophiles watching rape videos together.
Police appeal for 13 missing Vietnamese teenagers who may be in hands of slave gangs
Northamptonshire Police say 13 missing Vietnamese teenagers, all aged between 14 and 18, have vanished from Northampton and Corby between June and September this year.
Man had sex with a horse called Ruby which he treated like his girlfriend
George Smith, 48, was given a suspended jail sentence, after he was found standing on a wooden crate having sex with a mare in a stable in Hinckley, Leicestershire.
Inmate slashed throat of prisoner because he thought he had stolen his rosary beads
David O'Brien, 39, in Strangeways prison, Manchester, got a second life sentence after pleading guilty to slashing a man's throat after he thought he had stolen his rosary beads.
Met Office: UK cold snap on its way out.
UK residents will breath a sigh of relief after the Met Office revealed the cold snap would easy over the weekend.
Urgent appeal for parents after lone toddler 'aged 2 or 3' wanders into shop on his own
Police have appealed for information after a child wandered into a newsagents in Wigan, Greater Manchester, with no sign of his parents anywhere nearby.
Step-dad who killed 19-month-old boy by swinging head into fireplace in 1968, jailed for life
David Dearlove denied killing 19-month-old Paul Booth almost 50 years ago. A prosecution was brought by Paul's brother, Peter, a witness, who was 3-years-old at the time.
Crack and heroin gang kidnapped and tortured man in field they thought had stolen £40k drug stash
The gang wrongly suspected a man stole £30,000 to £40,000 of crack cocaine and heroin from a drugs safe house in Plumstead, south east London.
Poppi Worthington: Dead baby's DNA found on father's genitals, hearing told
Poppi Worthington died in December 2012 with a family judge ruling that on the balance of probabilities her father 'perpetrated a penetrative assault' on his daughter.
Brexit triggers massive drop in migration to 230,000
The numbers are the first to detail the effect that the Brexit vote has had on migration trends in the UK.
Heroin addict arranged to have £35k worth of skunk posted to her home
Geraldine Grant, from Widnes, Merseyside, was to receive a package containing 2.5 kilos of super-strength cannabis sent from Spain before it was intercepted at Gatwick Airport.
A drug dealer dubbed 'untouchable' was caught after a baseball and machete fight with a gang
A drug dealer dubbed 'untouchable', Leevon Birchall, has been jailed for 4 years for possession of cannabis after he was caught in a fight with a gang with a baseball bat.