A manhunt has begun after a prisoner convicted of attacking two women escaped while being taken to hospital.

An Albanian national has absconded from an immigration removal centre, the Home Office has confirmed.

The sale of high-caffeine energy drinks to under-16s is to be banned in England from April next year.

A British mother who abducted her two sons from their American father has been on the run in the UK for more than three months, prompting him to take court action.

A University of Aberdeen employee has been arrested and charged over social media comments about the death of Ann Widdecombe.

Henry Nowak's killer confessed to stabbing the teenager multiple times as he travelled in a police van with his brother just days after the murder.

A mother has been found guilty of killing her baby daughter due to heat from a hairdryer.

All teenagers in Britain should be offered free vaccinations against deadly meningitis, government advisers recommended.

A mother who fears her teenage son may have died following an online challenge gone wrong has welcomed a High Court decision to order a new inquest into his death.

British Steel has been taken into public ownership in the "national interest", the government has announced.