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A driver who went on a skiing holiday months after killing two teenage passengers has been sentenced to 14 months' youth detention.

Epping Forest District Council (EFDC) has lost its latest bid to stop housing asylum seekers at the Bell Hotel in Epping.

A seven-year-old boy has died after being struck by a car in Nottinghamshire.

A teenage boy who was charged with attempted murder after a school stabbing has appeared in court.

A convicted murderer, who once escaped from prison using a grappling hook, orchestrated a plot to collapse a £45m international drug smuggling trial by claiming the jury had been bribed.

A third horse has died at this year's Cheltenham festival.

Dozens of MPs are calling for the government to formally apologise for Britain's actions during its administration of Palestine in the first part of the 20th century.

Across the country last week, hundreds of criminals woke to the sound of their front doors splintering.

A personal assistant who was targeted by alleged Chinese spies in the UK has denied defrauding her former Hong Kong employer out of millions.

Thirty years after the Dunblane school massacre, Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander has said the tragedy "haunts many of us still to this day".