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Hospital authorities have been forced to apologise and pay out compensation after a man with Down's syndrome was starved for nine days due to a huge blunder

Canvey Island used to be a thriving holiday destination in the 1960s but it has now been given the unenviable tag as one of the top five most dangerous towns in Essex

Two children, aged nine and 13, and a woman aged 38 were taken to hospital for treatmen after a suspected poisoning in Uckfield, East Sussex on Thursday

Jon and Carie Hallford abandoned hundreds of dead family members in what became a maggot-infested Colorado funeral home. The couple spent £1,2000 on a Las Vegas dinner and thousands on motors, FBI agents said

A police boat was spotted on the River Thames, circling between Vauxhall and Chelsea Bridge, but the Metropolitan Police fears it might never find his body due to the river's strong current

Cleveland Police have started a murder investigation after the death of a 60-year-old man in Myton Way, Ingleby Barwick, last night, in which a driver failed to stop

On February 7, one of Dr Katherine ‘Katie’ Tran's colleagues heard a loud noise and turned to see Sharon Stewart standing over the dentist with a three-inch blade knife, according to police

Essex Police responded to reports of a suspicious male in Great Baddow, Chelmsford on Friday afternoon, but after apprehending him, they found a deceased 60-year-old female inside a property nearby

Little Gaston Stone, 51, has been charged with two counts of aggravated assault against an officer after he allegedly brought in paperwork laced with a drug-like substance on February 6

Jeanette Irvine, 51, feared she would never see her children again when violent thug Marie Huggan sliced her throat open with a bottle in an unprovoked attack at De Vito's in Arbroath in July 2022.

Cieran McNamara, 37, who uses three other names, was this week unmasked as a fraudster who preyed on women for their wealth, often snaring them online or through dating apps.

Police confirmed that a 10th body has been pulled from Lady Bird lake in Austin, Texas - but as authorities say investigations are pending, residents live in fear of a 'Rainey Street Ripper'

A 26-year-old charged with killing a bride on her wedding day after drunkenly driving into a golf cart has now started to plan her own wedding, a released call from prison revealed

A Texas attorney, 39, who was caught giving his soon-to-be ex-wife an abortion-inducing drug has been jailed for fewer than six months

An Oklahoma judge has been told to step down after sharing hundreds of 'crass' texts with her bailiff which included personal comments about the prosecuting attorney

In 2023, scammers took over $10 billion from US consumers by perpetuating various fraud schemes. A new report by the Federal Trade Commission broke the numbers down and detailed how its working to stop the scams

Daisy Link this week requested to be released on house arrest pending her murder trial due to her pregnancy, which she allegedly told her mother was caused by another inmate's semen-filled glove that made its way to her

The "bizarre team" of Antoinette Sheppard, 44, and Kieron Spicer, 16, battered 'kind and gentle' Michael Brady to death before hiding his remains in a TV box in a garden shed in Coventry

Laura Rixon, probation officer for Reading terror attacker Khairi Saadallah, has admitted she was unknowingly “managing an unconvicted murderer” before he killed three people, an inquest heard

The Metropolitan Police said on Friday its main working hypothesis is that the 35-year-old had "gone into the water", but no body had been found

Eden Lomax, 27, was just a teenager when he killed a complete stranger with one punch just moments after he told him he'd had suicidal thoughts. He is now wanted on recall to prison

Footage from inside a Miami Beach pharmacy on Thursday allegedly shows Nicolas Sternman, the suspected kidnapper snatching up a 4-year-old boy by the neck

Over the indulgent two hour interview the Russian despot shared his thoughts on a range of topics from the possibility of nuclear armageddon, to his opinion of tech mogul Elon Musk

Mary Casey overtook cars at a red light before driving the wrong way down a one-way street in Cambridge and crashing into parked cars before reversing into her great-niece, a crown court heard

The boy died just a day after enrolling at the Trails Carolina camp, which claims to 'help struggling teens' by taking kids and teens away from their families with parental consent