Early estimates indicate that over 373 people died in a massive earthquake and Tsunami which hit Indonesia on 24 December and the death toll is expected to rise. The businesses on beach side and plantations which support the city have suffered...

The son of one of Britain's police and crime commissioners has been jailed after his father decided he had no choice but to press charges after he destroyed his TV during a drunken rampage.

Three men who blew up a shop in a £300,000 insurance scam have been found guilty of murdering five people. A mother and her two sons were among those killed in the "bomb-like" blast which destroyed the supermarket in Hinckley Road, Leicester,...

A woman died from stab wounds to her neck and chest, a post-mortem examination has found. 

A widespread appeal has been issued - in a bid to trace a man last seen more than 50 miles away from home.

A Leicestershire family say they were terrified after robbers broke into their village shop while they hid in their flat upstairs.

The Editor of the British Sikh Report, Jagdev Singh Virdee, has received an MBE from Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, for “Services to Statistics and to the Sikh community”, in recognition of his contribution to the field of official statistics...

A brewery has agreed to stop using the sacred Hindu 'Om' symbol on its bottle after criticism from a Hindu community. The Award-winning microbrewery Cheshire Brewhouse acted after criticism from a Hindu society based in America. They brewery,...

A Times Investigation has found how young women who are sent abroad by their families for forced marriages are charged by the Foreign Office for the cost of rescuing them. The department helped to repatriate 27 victims of forced marriage in...