“Predatory and controlling” former police officer David Carrick sexually abused a girl and a woman in a “pattern” of offending spanning many years, a court has heard. Carrick, 50, is accused of ...

Protesters are set to face jail for demonstrating outside the homes of MPs and other politicians under a new law aimed at tackling harassment of public office holders. Activists could be imprisoned ...

One in 10 children in the first year of primary school in England is obese – the highest figure on record outside the pandemic, figures show.

Ukrainian long-range drones have attacked an industrial plant around 800 miles inside Russia. The attack came as Ukraine’s ...