Premiership footballer Lee Hughes has been jailed for six years for causing death by dangerous driving. The 28-year-old West Bromwich Albion striker had denied causing the death of father-of-four ...

Former EastEnders actor Mike Reid, who played wheeler dealer Frank Butcher in the BBC soap, died at the age of 67. Reid was a real-life Londoner, born in Hackney, East London, in 1940. A few months ...

Ayr United are poised to sell their Somerset Park stadium and replace it with an £18m, 7,650-seat replacement in the town's Heathfield district. The Second Division club have secured a 20 acre site in ...

Solicitor Chris Bowen resigned when told by his employers they could not spare him the time to follow up the Rettendon murders case after his clients, Michael Steele and Jack Whomes, were convicted.

The terms "old" and "new" have been played around with in the cut and thrust of this election campaign but exactly how old are our current crop of political parties? The BBC's Elena Egawhary has taken ...

Six men who killed a doorman and wounded three others when they tried to force their way into a nightclub have each been jailed for life. Ishfaq Ahmed, 24, was shot in the back as he attempted to stop ...

Michael Higdon scored three minutes into added time to earn Crewe a point. Steve Jones supplied the cross which was met by Higdon's firm header to cancel out Clinton Morrison's near-post header which ...

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Tottenham cruised to an easy victory over Dinamo Bucharest to secure top spot in Uefa Cup Group B. Dimitar Berbatov netted on 16 minutes, lashing in from 20 yards after keeper Uladzimir Hayeu's poor ...

Rebels said a coalition of groups had launched the attack Rebels intent on overthrowing Chad's president have attacked the border town of Adre in far-eastern Chad. A coalition of four rebel groups ...

A huge boring machine used to build the Channel Tunnel that links the south of England and France has been sold by online auction site eBay. The 580-ton drill went for £39,999 to a bidder using the ...

Men in prison are five times more likely to commit suicide than those in the general population, a Lancet online study has found. Mental illness and overcrowding are possible explanations, the ...