Paul Wright

A mother who found her seven-year-old son with a makeshift noose around his neck says he got the idea from a popular YouTube video.

Clinton Stothard, a 31-year-old paedophile, has been jailed after going on holiday with a 15-year-old girl and her family having convinced them he was a teenager.

Ivana Smit fell to her death in Malaysia after reportedly plunging from the balcony of a 20th floor apartment after a drug-fuelled party with swingers.

Police say a man was repeatedly punched in the head in a homophobic attack outside Charing Cross train station in central London.

A trackside fire at London Waterloo station has caused major disruption to journeys with South Western Railway (SWR) services cancelled or face delays of up to an hour.

David Davis has said he doesn't have to "know that much" or be "very clever" to do his job as Brexit Secretary – but that his main role is to simply remain "calm".

A 400 year-old mass grave has been discovered in connection with the Dutch merchant vessel Batavia, which was shipwrecked near Beacon Island off the west coast of Australia.

Lego has won a landmark legal case in China against rivals selling cheap imitation plastic blocks almost identical to the originals.

Police say a US woman who allegedly punched herself in the abdomen and allowed a relative to sit on her stomach to end a pregnancy is now at the centre of a homicide investigation.

A 24-year-old kidnap victim barely escaped with his life after being held hostage for more than two days during which he was stripped, tied up and beaten by a gang in Croydon.

A hard working retired couple who have been paying into a life insurance for decades have been told that if they don't die before 17 January next year, they'll receive nothing.

A "very grateful" former patient has sent NHS staff at Stamford hospital in Lincolnshire an anonymous Christmas card every year since 1960.

Averil Hart, a 19-year-old student with anorexia, starved to death in a matter of weeks after a series of NHS failures, a scathing report has found.

Mohamed Al-Fayed has been accused of sexually harassing three of his female employees, including two teenagers, while owner of Harrods.

Genene Jones, a former nurse suspected of killing up to 60 infants in Texas, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges relating to five children in the early 1980s.

Detectives investigating the double murder of sex offender Noel Brown and daughter Marie Brown in Deptford, east London are looking at whether they were killed by a vigilante.

Former priest John Feit has been convicted of murdering 25-year-old Texas schoolteacher and beauty queen Irene Garza, more than half a century after her death.

Six arrested after police in Staffordshire uncover more than 3,000 cannabis plants in former poultry barns in Wheaton Aston.

Norwegian royal family's Ari Behn claims he was groped under the table by shamed star at prize concert 10 years ago.

London gang members Mahad Yusuf and Fesal Mahamud, who groomed a teen girl as a drug mule, were convicted of modern slavery offences in a landmark case tackling "county lines".

The Onslow County District Attorney's Office confirmed that the remains found in a creek were that of missing three-year-old Mariah Woods.

Dewsbury County Conservative Association faces backlash over decision to hold annual dinner at National Coal Mining Museum in heart of former pit community.

99-year-old Holocaust survivor Wolfgang Lauinger, who was imprisoned for being gay after returning home to Germany, has been denied compensation for his ordeal.

A Delta flight from New York City to Seattle had to be diverted to Billings after the plane's toilets stopped working and passengers couldn't hold it in any longer.

Stepfather Paul Smith, whose five-year-old son died after being found submerged at Bosworth Water Park near Hinckley, has pleaded guilty to manslaughter by gross negligence.

Stab victim Paul Millea died after he frantically dialled 999 and was put on hold, a court has heard.

Two young sisters who were believed to have been held by a religious cult leader in Utah have been found hungry, cold and alone in a storage receptacle.

Brandon Conrad, 14, Malik Page, 16, and Emmanuel Harris, 17, have been charged with beating to death homeless man Kevin Cullen in Philadelphia.

Philip Hammond has angered defence chiefs by reportedly telling the prime minister the British Army only needed 50,000 troops – a cut of more than half of the personnel since 2010.