There has been a "worrying decline" in families approved to adopt a child, a charity has warned.
NHS staff have been called "dirty foreigners" and "monkeys" amid a "noticeable" and "unacceptable" rise in racism from patients, a survey has found.
Dividing lines between victim groups, fears about prisons becoming full again by Christmas, and concerns that these changes will lead to "inevitable mistakes" – probably not the intended outcomes of the prime minister's urgent review on early release, but that's the reality.
People jailed for rape, serious child sex offences and grooming will be excluded from the upcoming early release scheme, the government has announced.
Gabrielle Carrington, a former X Factor contestant, has pleaded not guilty to murdering a social media influencer by running her over with a car.
The Sunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle has died.
A prolific sexual predator has been found guilty of murdering two women and violently raping a third amid a string of missed chances to stop him.
A man who kept his mother's body in a freezer for nearly three years while receiving more than £78,000 of her benefits has been jailed.
A man has been arrested following the death of a nine-year-old girl who was found seriously injured at an industrial estate in Angus.
Drivers have stolen an average of almost £200,000 worth of fuel from UK forecourts every day since the start of the Iran oil crisis, analysis shows.