The two women and five men were convicted of a range of offences last year which the trial judge said plunged ‘the depths of human depravity’.

Manchester City’s miserable run continued at the weekend as they were beaten at Aston Villa. It was a ninth defeat in 12 games in all competitions and they sit seventh in the Premier League at ...

Driven Jack Draper believes he has the right formula to challenge Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner in 2025. The 22-year-old took big strides in the game this year, climbing from outside the top 60 to ...

Claire Button, 35, appeared at Southend Magistrates’ Court on Monday charged over the death of five-year-old Lincoln Button.

Officers have been trawling a landfill site in Essex for the body of Cumali Turhan, who was last seen in Chelmsford in the early hours of ...

The daughter of a woman whose body has not been found after she was murdered by her abusive boyfriend has described her restless nights not knowing where her mother’s remains are. Fiona Holm, 48, was ...

A warning about a fallen tree on a railway line made 12 minutes before it was hit by a train at 84mph was not passed on to the driver, an investigation has found. The driver’s cab of the ScotRail ...

Customers have complained that their More Card discounts have not applied at the tills or they have been told food deliveries will be late.

Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu will lead a pro-European administration after the presidential election was annulled, deepening a political crisis.

Revised figures from the Office for National Statistics reduced previous estimates of 0.1 growth between July and September.

England head coach Jon Lewis says his side are in “a really good place” for the upcoming Ashes series in Australia, which he describes as cricket’s “hardest challenge”. Lewis’ side bounced back from ...

A fire that broke out at the front of a shop in Birmingham sounded “like a bomb went off”, a local resident said. Local property developer Isaac Zintaan said he was alerted to the fire in the early ...