Charity Howard League for Penal Reform has sent a letter before claim to Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood urging her to withdraw the decision.

A BBC programme which aired a claim that Gerry Adams sanctioned the killing of a spy would “probably” not have breached broadcasting regulations and was not “unfair or unjust”, a media expert has told ...

Qualified GPs are being forced to “consider employment benefits” as a direct result of an “unemployment crisis” in the sector, leading medics have warned. The British Medical Association (BMA) said ...

A care home boss said 92-year-old Donald Burgess looked ‘possessed’ before the alleged assault by police officers, ...

A domestic abuse victim who stabbed her partner multiple times with a kitchen knife while he slept has been jailed for a minimum of 12 years. Julie Anne McIlwaine 34, from Hazel Close, Lagmore, in ...

Daniel Tatters, whose DNA was found on a lighter at the scene, and look-out Dale Francis will be sentenced on Thursday for killing Akashdeep Singh.

A British man on trial for drug offences has pleaded for leniency in a court on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali after a charge that could carry the death penalty was dropped.

Former Crystal Palace owner Simon Jordan praised Steve Parish’s custodianship of the football club after the Eagles won the FA Cup for the ...

A Conservative councillor said he is “heartbroken” that his wife’s appeal bid against her 31-month sentence for inciting racial hatred has been dismissed at the Court of Appeal.

Amid some stars leaving ITV soap Coronation Street, Elle Mulvaney, who plays Amy Barlow, has addressed her future on the cobbles after reaching ...

The King’s old school in Scotland has formed a sporting partnership with a Dubai professional football club. Gordonstoun, a private boarding school in Moray, has also committed to local partnerships ...

Reform UK is the most popular political party among voters and the Conservatives have fallen into fourth place, the latest opinion polling reveals. Nigel Farage’s party has the backing of 29% of the ...