Armed patrols in response to 10 shootings in Luton have been "scaled back", Bedfordshire Police have said. Four extra armed response units were introduced on the Marsh Farm and Lewsey Farm estates after a recent spate of firearm incidents this year. Read the rest of this entry »

The Belfast Islamic Centre has had paint thrown over it. The police said they were treating the incident at Wellington Park as a hate crime. Read the rest of this entry »

A man will be in court today facing charges of deliberately mowing down pedestrians in a hit-and-run rampage that left mother-of-three Karina Matthews dead. Matthew Tvrdon, 32, is accused of deliberately targeting parents and young children with a white Iveco van in the Ely and Leckwith areas of Cardiff on October 19 last year. Read the rest of this entry »

The dramatic moment police shot the two Woolwich terror suspects has been caught on video. New footage shows the two men brandishing weapons and charging at officers in a car as they arrive at the scene. Read the rest of this entry »

Two men have been released on bail following their arrest for making alleged offensive comments on Twitter about the murder of a British soldier in London. Complaints were made to Avon and Somerset Police about remarks that appeared on the social networking website, which were allegedly of a racist or anti-religious nature. Read the rest of this entry »

A mother and daughter who died after falling ill on a boat on Lake Windermere were killed by generator fumes, an inquiry has found. Kelly Webster, 36, and Lauren Thornton, 10, of Leyland, Lancashire, were found suffering from breathing difficulties on the boat on 1 April. Read the rest of this entry »

Police made two further arrests and raided houses across London following the brutal murder of a serving soldier who survived a tour of duty in Afghanistan. Prime Minister David Cameron appealed for calm after 25-year-old Lee Rigby was butchered outside a London army barracks on Wednesday, while an extra 1,200 officers were deployed on the capital's streets in a bid to reassure the public. Read the rest of this entry »

LONDON (Reuters) - Police investigating the murder of a soldier hacked to death on a busy London street were looking on Friday into whether the two suspected killers, British men of Nigerian descent, were part of a wider conspiracy. Read the rest of this entry »

A family doctor who filmed himself sexually abusing female patients with his James Bond-style wristwatch has been jailed for 12 years. Dr Davinder Jeet Bains, 46, used a secret camera hidden inside his watch as he assaulted more than two dozen women at a medical practice in Wiltshire, where he was a trusted GP. Read the rest of this entry »