The CPS has today authorised Merseyside Police to charge Paul Desmond Sanders Doyle, 53 from West Derby, with seven offences following a major incident in Water Street, Liverpool on Monday May 26.

A priest who was formerly employed as a PE teacher has been jailed for six years having been found guilty of non-recent sexual abuse against boys as young as eleven.

A man who stabbed a nine-year-old girl in an attempt to kill her has been jailed today.

A man has been jailed for more than two years after being involved in widespread unrest in Blackpool.

Dylan Phelan, 21, has been jailed for encouraging the suicide of a vulnerable man in the USA via a video call.

The first prison sentences have been handed down for those involved in one of the recent incidents of disorder in the North East of England.

Three men who were part of a plot to bring millions of pounds worth of cannabis, hidden in mattresses, into Britain have been jailed.