National Headlines

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.

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.

A man who kept his mother's body in a freezer for nearly three years while receiving more than £78,000 of her benefits has been jailed.

A man has been arrested following the death of a nine-year-old girl who was found seriously injured at an industrial estate in Angus.

Drivers have stolen an average of almost £200,000 worth of fuel from UK forecourts every day since the start of the Iran oil crisis, analysis shows.