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) ...

Southport’s Labour MP Patrick Hurley said the sentence was “not severe enough” and he has asked the Attorney General to review the sentence as “unduly lenient”, adding: “We need a sentence that ...