Charity Howard League for Penal Reform has sent a letter before claim to Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood urging her to withdraw the decision.

The charity, which supported vulnerable children, went into liquidation in August 2015 following unfounded safeguarding allegations.

A BBC programme which aired a claim that Gerry Adams sanctioned the killing of a spy would “probably” not have breached broadcasting regulations and was not “unfair or unjust”, a media expert has told ...

A domestic abuse victim who stabbed her partner multiple times with a kitchen knife while he slept has been jailed for a minimum of 12 years. Julie Anne McIlwaine 34, from Hazel Close, Lagmore, in ...

Daniel Tatters, whose DNA was found on a lighter at the scene, and look-out Dale Francis will be sentenced on Thursday for killing Akashdeep Singh.

A care home boss said 92-year-old Donald Burgess looked ‘possessed’ before the alleged assault by police officers, ...

A Conservative councillor said he is “heartbroken” that his wife’s appeal bid against her 31-month sentence for inciting racial hatred has been dismissed at the Court of Appeal.

A British man on trial for drug offences has pleaded for leniency in a court on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali after a charge that could carry the death penalty was dropped.

A GRASSED area outside a row of bungalows will be ripped up to create new parking spaces. The plans for Ormiston’s Tynemount Road were given the go-ahead after East Lothian Council received no ...

THIS MONTH is your last chance to catch a glimpse of the "vibrant display" of bluebells at this "stunning" Scottish woodland. The Perthshire spot, which ranked alongside places like Hitchin in North ...