All news by author James Smith

A man whose torso was discovered wrapped in plastic at a nature reserve has been identified by police as 67-year-old Stuart Everett.

Women constitute only a third of local election candidates in England, a new study has found.

The SNP has begun its search for Humza Yousaf’s successor – but the Scottish Government will still face a vote of no confidence in Holyrood.

Matteo Bottarelli chased colleagues with a pickaxe and a scalpel around the grounds of Central Middlesex Hospital in London, saying “today is your lucky day” before stabbing one in the neck

Post-Brexit checks will add more than £330m to annual business costs and 0.2% to food inflation over three years, the government admitted.

A British backpacker has been found dead at his holiday accommodation in Colombia.

TikTok prankster Mizzy, real name Bacari OGarro, 19, was knocked off balance by an officer’s baton when he tried to dodge police while on an e-bike, a court heard

Two other travellers in the car were also injured

The former Manchester City and France defender had been a wanted man with HMRC, who had sought a bankruptcy order against him over an outstanding figure of £710k

Lee Byer, 45, stabbed Thomas O’Halloran to death in Greenford in August 2022. A post-mortem found the victim had suffered multiple stab wounds to the neck, chest and abdomen.

British and Irish ministers are set to meet as tensions grow over the UK’s policy on migrants.

Ernest Moret was held en route to a book fair amid fears police are using counter-terrorism powers to target activists

Born to a poor Romany Gypsy family in 1970, Alfie Best has amassed a huge fortune of more than £700million and has now moved to the millionaire’s playground of Monaco

Plans are at an early stage, according to a newspaper report, although there is no decision on whether the missile will be launched from land, sea or air.

Durham Constabulary has launched an investigation after a man in his 40s was killed today in a parachute incident at an industrial estate in Shotton, County Durham

Fiona Beal, of Moore Street, Northampton, was arrested in March 2022 after police discovered the body

The mental health doctor, who was elected as a Tory MP in 2010, said the Conservatives had become a “nationalist party of the right”, and no longer prioritised the NHS

The tourist, a 64-year-old British man, is now in intensive care after sustaining injuries to his left hand, left thigh and stomach while swimming near the Starfish Hotel in Tobago

Monarch to resume public-facing engagements after palace says doctors ‘very encouraged’ by his progress

The city of Venice, one of Italy’s most popular tourist spots, on Thursday became the first city in the world to impose an entry fee for visitors as it attempts to clamp down on overcrowding from holidaymakers...

The driver of a Tesla involved in a crash that left a motorcyclist dead said he was operating the vehicle’s Autopilot feature and checking his phone at the time, documents show. The 56-year-old unnamed driver was on his way home from lunch at 3.45pm last Friday when his Tesla collided with a motorcycle driven by Jeffrey Nissen, 28, in a suburban area about 15 miles outside of Seattle. Mr Nissen was pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities are yet to verify that the car was running Autopilot at the time of the crash, but the fatal incident raises questions over whether Tesla’s recent recall of two million cars went far enough to ensure that motorists using the auto drive feature pay attention to the road. The Tesla driver was arrested for investigation of vehicular homicide after he told a Washington State Patrol trooper he was using the vehicle’s Autopilot feature and looked at his cellphone while the car was moving, according to a probable-cause document obtained by the Associated Press.

Ahead of new Channel 5 documentary A Very British Sex Scandal: The Earl & The Escort, the Mirror takes a look at the death of aristocratic Anthony Ashley-Cooper, whose remains were found in a lonely ravine

The bloody cycle of gangland revenge that led to Lee Amos’ death behind bars in a Staffordshire prison

Ministers were accused of a ’colossal act of cowardice’ in a backlash over the Renters Reform Bill after Michael Gove backtracked on a promised ban of no-fault evictions