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It's a desperate measure to avoid living next to travellers - but Sky News has learned of at least one community which clubbed together to buy land, fearing unwelcome neighbours were about to move in.

A teenager has been left with potentially life-threatening gunshot wounds after a shooting near a Birmingham mosque.

The public body which examines potential miscarriages of justice needs to urgently improve the quality of its work, an independent review has found.

A father killed his four-week-old baby by shaking him in a moment of "pure violence", a court has heard.

A teenager has drowned during a Duke of Edinburgh's Award trip in Wales.

A yellow heat health alert has been issued for large parts of the UK later this week - as the Met Office said it was provisionally the hottest June on record in England.

New CCTV images have been released by police of a man pictured in the days before he was found dead in woodland in Cornwall.

The family of a three-year-old boy who was seriously injured in a crocodile enclosure has thanked staff at the zoo who rescued their son.

Two people have died after a light aircraft crashed in a field in Essex yesterday afternoon, police have said.

Two police officers are under investigation for potential gross misconduct over how they dealt with Henry Nowak prior to his death.