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Alanda Pike, 34, was driving her Vauxhall Astra when she hit a van on the A354 near Blandford, Dorset, on 24 August while under influence of cocaine and alcohol.

Christopher Lythgoe, 31, from Woolston, was arrested as part of a probe into banned extreme right-wing group National Action, and charged with 'encouragement to commit murder'.

Ramzi Hamrouni was described as 'every lone female public transport passenger's nightmare' after two sexual assaults in Barry, Wales. One woman was targeted in front of her family.

James Weir is turning 21. He suffers from autism, which keeps him from making friends. His big sister Lucy is asking people to send him postcards on his special day.

A military bunker built by the German army in 1942 has gone up for sale in the Channel island of Guernsey.

An emergency call handler was told by a child that his 46-year-old father Barry Dermot 'had been sniffing white powder and drinking alcohol'. Dermot was later arrested.

Business analyst Qingqing Rao, 30, was left in persistent vegetative state after a knife attack by by Barry Peacham, 26, on Valentine's Day eve this year.

Morgan Clarke, 18, Anton Thompson, 20, and Declan Andrews, 17, have been jailed for kidnap and blackmail after subjecting a 16-year-old to a horrific ordeal in Moston, Manchester.

A man has been taken to hospital after he was stabbed close to the Christ Church Primary School in Tower Road, St Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex on Monday (23 October).

The child, named locally as Bethan Colebourn, was found unresponsive at a property in Fordingbridge in Hampshire. The girl's mother, Claire, has been arrested, according to reports

Romanian shepherd Samuel Ciornei, 20, was found guilty of raping a schoolgirl in Barrhead, Renfrewshire, less than three weeks after arriving in Scotland.

A man, in his 20s, was shot close to the Jamia Abu Hanifa Mosque, in Undercliffe, at around 2pm on Friday (20 October) with worshippers shocked to hear gunshots.

Eric X, 31, from Ghana, threatened woman, 23, and boyfriend, 26, with a machete in the Siegaue Nature Reserve campsite, near Bonn, Germany, in April.

Dawn Davies, from Manchester, abused an 11-year-old boy over a two-year period before being convicted of 12 counts of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

The Met Office had issued a yellow warning for strong winds that have developed over the Atlantic. Storm Brian is due to batter the UK on Saturday (21 October).

The government wants universities to be able to be a voice for all opinions, even on "difficult" subjects.

Loomis security guards Mohammad Siddique, 32, and Ranjeev Singh, 40, claimed they had been robbed after picking up the money for Credit Suisse at Heathrow Terminal 4.

CCTV shows how a thief jumped off a moped ran into the Bread and Bean Café in Archway, north London, before snatching a woman's laptop and fleeing with an accomplice.

Police in Nigeria's southern Delta state say that a militant group kidnapped the four missionaries at around 2am local time on Friday (13 October).

A Swedish express train has been christened Trainy McTrainface in an echo of the name chosen by the British public for its new polar research vessel.

George Saunders' becomes the second US author to win the prize for Lincoln in the Bardo which was described as 'unique' and 'extraordinary' by the judging panel.

Janine Adeleke from Bexhill-on-Sea has been jailed for a second time following a retrial at Canterbury Crown Court where it emerged she had ran a 'high class' escort agency.

Craig Procter, 40, from Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, has been jailed for the murder of Ellia Arathoon, with a glass in his home, before he set fire to her body on the Wirral.

Three men were stabbed close to the Parsons Green station in South-West London as commuters made their way home. One man died after the incident on Monday (16 October).

Abdel-Aziz Al-Shamary, 21, originally from Kuwait, attacked a woman after she left a pub in Darlington telling one witness "Allah's going to get you", Teesside Crown Court heard.

Entitled 'Opposite Number' the 10-part Channel 4 TV drama that was being produced by Mammoth Screen. The show, set in Pyongyang, was targeted by hackers in 2014.

The storm, which has come from the Atlantic Ocean, brought winds of almost 100mph in some parts of the country.

Former Hurricane Ophelia turned the UK sky red on 16 October. Twitter is already talking of Rapture - but the Met office offers a very logical explanation.

Storm Ophelia is set to hit Ireland and parts of the UK with gusts of up to 80mph from the Atlantic, causing schools and airports to close.

Dylan Harries, 22, from Carmarthenshire, repeatedly stabbed young mum Katrina Evemy, 19, leaving her 22-month-old daughter covered in blood in a house in Llanelli earlier this year.