Crime

The speed limit on the M1 and other motorways has been slashed - with £8,000 of fines a day dished out as part of a trial to make roads safer amid a growing spate of crashes and pile-ups

Dame Esther Rantzen is calling on the government to legalise assisted dying to spare families 'painful last memories' - and nearly 80% of Mirror readers support the plans

Bomb disposal experts have been called to the scene in Plymouth after someone found an explosive in their garden, sparking an alert with people told to leave their properties

A bully-type dog which was shot dead by police after it injured three people and savagely attacked a Collie has been pictured for the first time since the incident in Scotland

Fourteen Metropolitan police officers from the same station are subject to a gross misconduct probe after vile Islamophobic and misogynistic messages were uncovered

Leicestershire Police are continuing to search the River Soar on Tuesday for a two-year-old boy who fell in two days ago, with CCTV emerging showing the sickening moment it happened

The group is one of the most prolific ransomware operators in the world and has hacked some of the world's largest organisations, but now the website has been seized by global law enforcers

Bernadine Pruessner and her children, Millie, Jackson, Ellie, and Ivy, were killed in a devastating house fire in Ferguson, Missouri, on Monday at around 4.30am

Frida Sofia Guzman Munoz, the granddaughter of notorious Mexican drug lord El Chapo, went on a hunt to track down the Loch Ness monster during a trip to Scotland

Thomas Routt Jr., 57, has been charged with two counts of first-degree intentional homicide over the deaths of Gina Weingart, 37, and her husband Emerson Weingart, 33, in Wisconsin

Police are looking for a dog walker who is said to have been walking along the footpath of the River Soar in Leicestershire, which is where a two-year-old fell in

Cindy Elmstrand-Castruita was unaware of the horror unfolding as her husband Paul Elmstrand joined a team of first responders to a property where gunman Shannon Cortez Gooden fired several rounds from a home in Burnsville, Minnesota

Terica Scott, 26, and Dineshia Yates, 26, were each charged with one count of principal to simple battery and principal to second-degree murder in the death of Blessings Buckles

Cop killer Shannon Gooden barricaded himself inside a home with seven children before SWAT members stormed the house, with disturbing footage from a decade ago showing a giddy Gooden firing a rifle

Mitchell C. Vest was spotted on CCTV footage at two stores wandering around, taking items to shove up his rectum before he returned them to shelves, police reports and an affidavit show

Polk County Sheriff Byron Lyons has said it is believed that Don Steven McDougal was the last person to have seen missing Audrii Cunningham, 11, in Livingston, Texas

Janice Wilding said she was "surprised" when she saw the shocking video capturing her actions, and blamed it on a laced drink. However, the 49-year-old provided no evidence and was handed hefty unpaid work for her actions

Shannon Cortez Gooden fired several rounds from the home in Burnsville, Minnesota, from multiple floors and with multiple guns - the house was packed with seven terrified children at the time

Kavonn Ingram, 31, is charged with killing his Pizza Hut boss, 55-year-old Alex Stengel, whose body was discovered in a dumpster behind the restaurant in South Milwaukee, Wisconsin

A photo on social media shows a statue of Amy Winehouse in Camden with a 'pro-Palestinian sticker' over her Star of David necklace and the Met Police is 'making enquiries'

Don McDougal, the man noted as a person of interest by police in the disappearance of Audrii Cunningham, was seen to proudly display a swastika tattoo and has served time for child sex offences

The two-year-old boy has been missing since falling into Aylestone Meadows in Leicester, with police dive teams searching the area as members of the public are urged to stay away

Ellie Baxter, 22, told Chelmsford Crown Court how her mum Carol Baxter, 64, had become reliant on Luke D'Wit, 34, and drank his "gross" herbal remedies to help with her ailing health conditions

Steve Riley-Hobbs was walking chihuahuas Kylie and Dannii down the street when they were suddenly attacked by two other dogs - and has been left with a £8,500 vet bill

Officers from the Metropolitan Police found the victim, Teddi Baker, 21, in an alleyway near Limehouse canal in east London, and are urging for any information about a fight in the area