Italy’s highest court on Thursday upheld a slander conviction against US defendant Amanda Knox for accusing an innocent man in her British flatmate’s 2007 murder.

Southport child-killer Axel Rudakubana is likely to die behind bars after receiving one of the highest minimum terms on record for the “sadistic” murders of three girls at a dance class.

A car and a lorry were involved in a crash on a south Shropshire B-road earlier today. The Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service said it received a call shortly before 4pm on Thursday (January 23) ...