Pc Ruby Begum admitted during a police misconduct hearing that she used discriminatory language while serving as a special constable.

A former prison officer accused of stirring up racial hatred on social media has told a jury he did not back a “call to arms” in the wake of the Southport attacks and regarded last summer’s riots as ...

Three people have been found dead and four people have been taken to hospital after an incident at a Dorset care home, police said. Emergency services are at the scene at the Gainsborough Care Home in ...

British actor Tom Hardy has paid tribute to his “lovely friend”, cinematographer Dick Pope, following his death aged 77. Announcing news of his death, the British Society Of Cinematographers said in a ...

Train services have been disrupted for more than eight hours after reports teenagers were seen with a weapon. Police were called to Gillingham railway station just before 6am.

Drivers are being urged to be more vigilant after the clocks go back an hour on Sunday, with analysis showing crashes rise following the annual change. The AA said the number of reports received for ...

Former Chatham manager and one-time Gills target Scott Lindsey has rattled some fans in League 2 with a bold claim this week.

Police have started excavating a section of wasteland behind eight-year-old Kyran’s former family home in Dundalk, Co Louth.

Murdered Brianna Ghey had become “immersed in darkness”, her mother has told the inquest into the teenager’s death. Esther Ghey said, in a statement read to Warrington Coroner’s Court, that when ...

Nationalising water firms would cost up to £100 billion and “not resolve the problems” faced by customers, according to the Environment Secretary. Steve Reed ruled out bringing the companies back into ...

A busy town centre is blocked in both directions after a lorry crashed outside a pub. Emergency services are reported to be in attendance at Tenterden High Street following the collision. The road is ...

Fast-growing chickens which reach their slaughter weight quicker than other types are the equivalent of a 28-stone (177.7kg) three-year-old, the Court of Appeal has heard. Animal welfare charity, The ...