Cheshire police made "collective errors" which might have cost a teenager his life, an investigation by the police watchdog has found. Thomas Lunt gashed his arm on a broken window while celebrating ...

The Iraqi Baath party was one of the tools by which Saddam Hussein maintained a tight grip on his country. The Arab Socialist Baath Party, to give it its full name, was founded in Syria in the 1940s ...

A man in Manchester may have made legal history in the UK after being acquitted of murdering his father because he was sleepwalking at the time. He was found not guilty due to insanity and sent to a ...

BBC News explains the northern town riots of 2001, what happened and the reasons why they happened. What were the northern town riots? In the summer of 2001, a number of northern towns in England ...

David Bingham, Paul Ritchie and Barry Wilson celebrate Inverness Caledonian Thistle cruised into the final of the Bell's Cup ...

John Profumo, who was at the centre of one of the UK's most famous political scandals, has died at the age of 91. John Profumo's public life was dramatically split into two parts: disgrace and ...

Last of the Summer Wine and Porridge actor Brian Wilde has died aged 80. Wilde played Foggy in the long-running comedy series Last of The Summer Wine and Barraclough in prison sitcom Porridge, ...

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Investigations are continuing into what caused a massive fire that destroyed a leading computer science research unit at the University of Southampton. Gas canisters exploded inside the Mountbatten ...

Full-time: Ireland 15-12 France Ireland win a cliffhanger to make it three victories from three matches in the RBS Six Nations. 78 mins: Ireland come close to a try but get a penalty which, taken by ...

Wyatt, who has had a fine season with the Scarlets, would probably have returned to the squad regardless, but a training ...

It is probably the most painful of all the track events. The race takes place over 1km (that is four laps of the track) for ...