Taxi licences are being issued behind closed doors to drivers convicted of offences including child sex crimes and reckless driving, the Local Democracy Reporting Service has revealed. The findings follow a government report that claims current...

Two men have been found guilty of the manslaughter of a 15-year-old girl who suffered an allergic reaction to a takeaway meal.

A gang of seven men has been convicted of sexually exploiting vulnerable teenage girls in Rotherham. One of the complainants told a trial at Sheffield Crown Court how she had sex with ‘at least 100 Asian men’ by the time she was 16 and another...

A teacher whose stammered since childhood is running a support group for pupils who also suffer with it.

A senior US military commander has called on the UK to take back Islamic State fighters who have been "caught on the battlefield" in Syria.

Leicester’s Diwali lights could be dimmed temporarily to mark the passing of a Labour city councillor who died suddenly at the weekend. Mo Chohan, who represented the Belgrave area of the city, is believed to have suffered a heart attack at...

Three men who are accused of murdering five people when a shop exploded have been charged with fraudulently trying to benefit from an insurance claim.