All news by author: Ryan Merrifield

A 17-year-old boy who was found dead after he and a group of friends got into difficulty in the River Thames has been named locally as his friends paid tribute

Gloucestershire Police have confirmed a body has been pulled from the River Thames in Lechlade, Gloucestershire, in the search for a missing teenage boy who got into trouble last night

Carl O'Keefe, 49, from Lancaster, was rescued from indoor caves at Kong Adventure Centre in Keswick but later sadly died from his injuries, his family has confirmed

Search and rescue boats were launched in Lechlade-on-Thames, Gloucestershire, after a group of teenagers got into trouble in the river, with one still missing this morning

Samantha Ford was sentenced to two concurrent 10-year prison terms for killing her IVF twins - but is set to walk free from hospital five years later having never served a single day inside

Cheryl Pickles, 35, and Andrew Hadwin, 39 - who was found dead in prison - deprived their child victims of food, locked them in a cupboard and forced them to take boiling hot baths

The body of murdered Marelle Sturrock, 35, was found by police on Tuesday morning, with her partner David Yates, 36, wanted in relation to her death before a man's body was found in a park

Contractors resurfacing a road for West Sussex County Council had to work around a van after the driver refused to move for them - with residents saying there had been plenty of warning

The body of heavily pregnant teacher Marelle Sturrock, 35, was found at her flat in Glasgow, Scotland, on Tuesday before police launched a murder investigation and found the body a man - believed to be fiancé David Yates

Louis De Zoysa, 25, has denied murdering Met Police custody sergeant Matthew Ratana, 54, in a shooting at a police station in Croydon - and will now face a trial in June

Official figures from the ONS have been analysed by taxi insurance firm Zego - taken from fatal and non-fatal accidents across the UK - to determine the most dangerous areas for drivers

Lee McConnell fell out with pensioner Wendie Bryant after she erected a metal post to stop him parking his VW campervan in her space - then had sex with his wife Dani outside her home

The offender - a man in his 30s - was given lifelong anonymity by a judge before being jailed for 16 months in Northern Ireland after being caught in a Yorkshire and Humberside Police sting

Olivier Yolo, 27, of Monsall, Greater Manchester, is facing prison after agreeing to fraudulently take learner drivers' theory tests for cash at a series of DVSA centres

Marketing body, Newsworks, has launched independent research revealing that the majority of Brits are concerned about being scammed by fake news, particularly when reading non-established outlets

Victim Francisco Moises Justino da Cruz, 19, died after falling from the edge of a waterfall while trying to take a selfie during a day out with his friends in Baturite, Brazil

Police found the body of a 35-year-old woman at a flat in Glasgow, Scotland, on Tuesday morning and continue search for a missing person, with both cases linked

The two-bedroom terraced property in Farnworth, near Bolton in Greater Manchester is listed on property site Zoopla for just £30,000 - but it needs a lot of work

Jäclyn Clairé was fined $283 (£151) for parking her car on her own driveway, as it doesn't fit in the garage, amid a council crackdown to keep vehicles from parked congesting roads

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. Kieran Hands and April Pearce, both 32, have now been banned from keeping all animals for five years and were given a suspended prison sentence after the RSPCA investigation

Research by the University of East Anglia suggests restricting food intake reduces the energy available to produce healthy eggs and sperm and so could cause long-term fertility problems

Jurors in two-year-old Lola James' murder trial were played harrowing recordings of the 999 calls made after killer stepdad fatally attacked her at the family home

Sinead James, 30, was convicted of allowing Kyle Bevan, 32, to kill her toddler daughter Lola at their home in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire. Bevan, who claimed the family pet knocked the two-year-old down the stairs was found guilty of murder

Spanish police told missing X-Factor star Levi Davis' mum Julie that they believe he likely drowned after being spotted in the water by cruise ship workers the day after he went disappeared

Former Met Police officer Muhammed Mustafa Darr, 37, based in North London, is facing corruption allegations after allegedly using the bank cards of dead people