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Dividing lines between victim groups, fears about prisons becoming full again by Christmas, and concerns that these changes will lead to "inevitable mistakes" – probably not the intended outcomes of the prime minister's urgent review on early release, but that's the reality.

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

Major retailers on London's high streets are using new technology from the Metropolitan Police to catch shoplifters.

A teenage girl who was abducted in Essex last night is back with her family, police say.

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

Profit has again more than doubled at oil and gas giant BP as the war in Iran boosted fossil fuel prices.

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.

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.