Three Metropolitan Police officers are investigated over allegations they made racist comments.

A millionaire's daughter who drove looters around London during last summer's riots is convicted of burglary.

One of the UK's most wanted escaped prisoners has been arrested in Amsterdam, the Serious Organised Crime Agency says.

Syrian troops launch fresh assaults on rebels, activists say, as a UN envoy travels to Damascus to discuss implementing a peace plan.

The Bank of England continues to hold UK interest rates at 0.5% and announces no change to its quantitative easing (QE) programme.

A man who appealed for calm after his son died during the Birmingham riots is given a suspended sentence for attacking a man a month earlier.

In an exclusive BBC interview a British man, held for a record seven years without trial while he fights extradition, appeals to be prosecuted in the UK.

Guitar amp innovator Jim Marshall - dubbed "the Father of Loud" for creating kit used by some of the biggest names in music - dies aged 88.