Shehraz Sarwar was acquitted after a district judge said he could not be sure the 46-year-old intended to cause injury.

A 27-year-old man grabbed a drunk teenage girl by the wrist down to the bottom of the beach near Brighton Pier and raped her, a trial has heard. The 16-year-old girl, who cannot be named for legal ...

Pensioners staged a protest outside Labour’s annual conference on Monday to criticise the government’s controversial plans to cut winter fuel allowance. Retired members of the Unite union held up ...

The new UK Government needs “to do better” in terms of resetting relations with political parties in Northern Ireland, First Minister Michelle O’Neill has said. Ms O’Neill was speaking to MLAs as she ...

Octopuses are usually considered to be solitary creatures, but new research suggests they might sometimes socialise with fish in order to share the responsibility of hunting. The findings broaden our ...

The murder of a schoolboy in south-east London is a “stark and sobering reminder of the danger of zombie-style knives” ahead of an incoming ban on them, police say. The 15-year-old was found with a ...

Joanna Johnson started to break down in tears as she told the PA news agency how 50 neighbours turned up at Moreteyne’s Retreat in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, at 8pm on Sunday in response to an ...

Uplyme were involved in a close Division Four encounter at Venlake and deserved to take at least a point from unbeaten section leaders ...

A helicopter and a vessel carrying coast guard officers take part in a search and rescue operation after a boat carrying ...

The duke is carrying out two days of engagements, with the first being a summit with the Diana Award, which was set up in memory of his late mother.

Lyme Regis are still looking for their first win in the Premier Division of the Devon and Exeter League this season ...

Two Islamic State extremists who planned the murder of an imam referred to him as “Voldemort” who was engaging in “black magic”, a public inquiry heard.