National Headlines

The widow of PC Andrew Harper, who was killed in the line of duty, has accused Andy Burnham of 'betrayal' after it was revealed that two of her husband's killers remain eligible for early release.

A fugitive fraudster who Sky News confronted in Tenerife has been jailed.

A motorist who drove at high speeds and falsely claimed his electric Jaguar would not brake in an attempt to avoid paying his car finance has been jailed.

A man who put deer heads and slaughtered lambs with inverted crosses at churches in the New Forest has been detained under the Mental Health Act.

There has been a "worrying decline" in families approved to adopt a child, a charity has warned.

NHS staff have been called "dirty foreigners" and "monkeys" amid a "noticeable" and "unacceptable" rise in racism from patients, a survey has found.

Best-selling crime author Lynda La Plante has been disqualified from driving for six months - after tearfully telling a court a ban would end her career.

The body of a missing 19-year-old kayaker has been found off Northumberland.

England and Wales have seen their driest July on record, provisional Met Office figures show.

The Sunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle has died.