UK crime

Donald Pollard, 69, from Toxteth, Liverpool, appeared at Liverpool Magistrates' Court charged with preventing a lawful burial and fraud and fraudulently claiming benefits.

The Long Lane Preschool, in Heald Green, Stockport, closed after the governing committee resigned. Nursery manager Sarwat Uppal is married to paedophile Imtinan Aljoffrey-Uppal.

Leicestershire Police said the 3 men are aged all in their 30s and have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after the blast which happened at around on Sunday (25 February)

Christopher Cook, 58, from Hyde, Tameside, Greater Manchester, had a live semi-automatic AR-15 machine gun in his bedroom and 16 other deactivated weapons.

Teesside Magistrates' Court heard that Stephen Dixon, 56, left his Staffordshire Bull terrier, Meeka, 'emaciated' between October 29 and November 26 last year.

Robert Brown and Gwendoline Harrison have both been charged after the deaths of Corey and Casper Platt-May.

Daisy Dymyd was found dead earlier in the week and someone is trying to make money from her death.

Colin Young, 35, of Bucks Hill, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, threatened Ann Dodd, who was 22 weeks pregnant, in a hair salon whilst brandishing a knife and wearing a mask.

John Michie's daughter Louella Eve Fletcher-Michie, 25, from London, died at the Bestival music festival in September 2017.

Paul Akinnuoye, 20, was convicted of murder following the killing of 19-year-old Jordan Wright on 19 April 2017 on Hervey Road in Blackheath, south London.

Nathan Galvin, 29, has been jailed for 3 years after admitting two assaults on his girlfriend in Ramsgate, Kent, after spotting her ex-boyfriend at a school reunion.

A man taken to hospital with injuries 'consistent of being stabbed,' police said after the incident which took place at Plymouth railway station on Wednesday (21 February).

Stephen Unwin and William McFall are accused of holding Quyen Ngoc Nguyen captive and raping her before killing her and dumping her body inside a car on a dirt track in Sunderland.

Adrian Bailey, 72, MP for West Bromwich West was attacked by up to 6 hooded assailants at around 10pm on Tuesday (21 February) in Crampton Street, SE17.

A 41-year-old man was jailed for 12 years for killing his elderly mum and leaving her body to 'rot' in her bedroom for weeks as he went about his life.

Christopher Nimbley and brothers Jeffrey and Bradley Dillon raped a woman while she was drunk and unresponsive and kept the images on mobile phones.

Peter Wrighton, 83, was knifed more than 30 times from behind in August last year, Nottingham Crown Court heard. Alexander Palmer, 24, has been charged with murder.

While returning home, the girl from Derby was attacked by a man who engaged in a violent struggle over her phone.

Giovanni Abbondandolo, 45, from Rochdale, has been jailed for 6 years and 8 months after trying to meet a 12-year-old girl in Manchester. He was previously jailed in 2007.

Andrew Burke has been charged with murder but has not yet entered a plea. Burke's solicitor said he 'accepted the responsibility' of killing Cassie Hayes in Merseyside.

Two British soldiers Lance corporal Mikko Vehvilainen, 33, and Private Mark Barrett, 24, and an unnamed civilian face charges under the Terrorism Act.

Thames Valley Police have launched an investigation after the man was raped in Campbell Park, Milton Keynes, at around 11pm on Thursday 15 (February).

Madan Lal, 45, of Ponteland, Northumbria, was planning to meet a 15-year-old boy from gay dating app Grindr as he is spared jail and handed a community order.

The pair, Thomas Woodhulme, 27, and William Henderson, 34, were both found not guilty of causing actual bodily harm to Strangeways prisoner Nigel Halfacre at Manchester Crown Court

Married father Shuaib Muhammad, 24, of South Shields, committed a sex act in the house, hacked her Facebook and made silent calls to the woman who has had to move home.

Joseph McKeever, 54, was found dead in a burned-out Ford Focus in Liverpool in June 2017. Jamie Grimes was found guilty of his murder at Liverpool Crown Court.

Fikri Yarasir, 53, who owns Yummy's pizza and kebab shop in Glossop, Derbyshire, is accused of trying to import 210 kilos of heroin, alongside six others at Manchester Crown Court.

Charlie Flinders, now 18, sent a number of explicit messages to the 12-year-old girl before he raped her in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, in 2015.

Nelly, from St Louis, Missouri, is under investigation by Essex Police after a woman said she was sexually assaulted at an address in Westcliff on 5 December 2017.

A video posted to Instagram purportedly shows a stolen 1951 Triumph Thunderbird burned by a bike thief in Bristol on Tuesday (13 February).