Crime

Alex Batty's mum Melanie is said to have told friends she has 'got to keep running' after her son celebrated his first Christmas back at home in the UK with his grandma

Shildon is located a mere thirteen miles from Durham and close to Middlesborough, and it features green spaces and easy access to lots of urban areas

Police are appealing for help in identifying the man, who was rushed to hospital after being found unconscious at Swansea Bay in south Wales with a pub receipt in his pocket

Robert Forbes risked his own life to try and save his father Leslie and pals Scott Daddy and Patrick Hibbins after their Land Rover Discovery fatally fell into the River Esk near Glaisdale

A pensioner with severe Alzheimer’s was brutally attacked with repeated punches and stamps after he mistakenly tried to get into another person’s car. He is still recovering in hospital

Police have launched a manslaughter hunt for two people who could be responsible for the deaths of a 54-year-old British woman and her 22-year-old son in a resort near Chamonix, France

In 1991 Kerry Needham's son Ben vanished when he was just two-years-old but the miraculous return of missing teen Alex Batty earlier this year is giving her fresh hope of seeing her boy again

Meath Court has been tipped as the 'worst place to live in Britain' and was compared by another resident to that of a 'slum', with the local council now attempting to move people from the area

A Texas teacher was arrested this month after she reportedly sexually abused a student, 13, at least 12 times in recent months, sent him money and had a pregnancy scare

A concierge at a luxury block of flats has accused a Premier League player of racially abusing him after allegedly turning up drunk in the early hours of the morning

Court documents revealed Teena Kamal, 54, had filed for chapter 13 bankruptcy in September 2022 - following reports that the family had endured financial woes before the disturbing incident.

A growing number of far-right hate figures including thug Tommy Robinson and supremacist Nick Fuentes are turning to an online platform which is a hotbed of anti-semitism and conspiracy theory

A missing teen who was picked up by a 34-year-old before being taken to his home, raped and strangled has now been found. The 16-year-old girl was found behind a trapdoor

Home Secretary James Cleverly was forced to apologise after we revealed he joked about drugging his wife, saying 'a little bit of Rohypnol in her drink every night' was 'not really illegal if it's only a little bit'

Kyle Wright, 33, was barred from JobCentre Plus in Crosby, Merseyside after a series of threats to 'smash up' the building and shoot an employee's head 'off her shoulders'

A family was tragically found dead in a Massachusetts mansion with a gun lying next to the bodies. But the identity and motive of the killer remains a mystery to authorities

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES AND CONTENT. Ian Tickhill, 58, from Hull, East Yorkshire, suffered a deep slash wound to his calf during a machete-wielding man's rampage on a beach in Agadir, Morocco, but said the incident has been exaggerated

Michael, a technology executive from East London, felt violated when he heard the robber saying his name through his Ring camera as he lay in bed after having his phone stolen

A baffling case from June 2014 - in which homeless woman Angela Millington was found dead in the salt marshes of Foulness Island with her face wrapped in tap - remains unsolved

Former Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin Guzman - known as El Chapo - will stay in his maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado after pleas to review his life sentence were ignored

Gypsy Rose Blanchard found herself the subject of internet beef mere days after she was released from prison — she posted a picture of a fake Facebook account and implored her followers to be vigilant and report similar ones

Alison Norris, an NHS midwife, stopped to try and help an unconscious lady in Burngreave, Sheffield, alongside 'Good Samaritan' Christian Marriott before a car hit the group

Pastor Dwayne Waden's wife was working at the North Carolina McDonald's as a manager-in-training when she claimed another employee was 'disrespecting' her. She called her husband who ended up having to be restrained as he attacked a cook

A bar brawl resulted in a man receiving permanent injuries because his assailant bit into him, with police now asking the public for help in tracking down the alleged attacker

Brutalised residents of a housing estate in London have blasted the shocking conditions they are being forced to endure with major criminality prevalent and many living in fear of their lives