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Number of applications soars to more than 3,000 as Britons grab chance to stay in Europe and avoid post-Brexit uncertainty.

The UK Foreign Office has rejected an appeal from Ecuador requesting diplomatic status be granted to WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange, who has lived in its London embassy for years.

Broadband users are feeling misled about promises made by telecommunication companies, including download speeds and monthly costs.

Toby Young attended last year's London Conference on Intelligence which was run by an honorary senior lecturer at University College London (UCL).

Rebecca Walker, from Leeds, has been jailed for 21 months for illegally claiming £176,000 in tax credits, carers' and disability allowances to fund 'luxuries'.

Richard Hignett, 32, of Wootton, Bedfordshire, admitted administering drugs to enable the murder of his parents. He has been sentenced to an indefinate hospital order.

Police have launched a murder inquiry and started digging up a suburban garden after a 63-year-old woman told police she had killed her father 'a number of years ago'.

Clean-up operations are taking place in many of Britain's beaches as debris and rubbish continues to be washed up in the wake of Storm Eleanor.

Richard Spottiswood, 34, and Lucy Burn, 29, have denied murdering Darren Bonner, 24, following a furious row about drugs at Cresswell Towers caravan park, Northumberland.

Asylum seeker Munir Mohammed volunteered for a 'lone wolf' mission and drafted in the help of pharmacist Rowaida El-Hassan, who he met on SingleMuslim.com.

Britons more pessimistic of attack by terrorists than people in US, France, Germany and Turkey, reveals Ipsos-Mori poll.

British stores including Tesco, Waitrose and B&Q have banned the sale of acids to customers under the age of 18 to crack down on crimes involving corrosive substances

Black cab driver John Worboys, 60, has spent 9 years and 9 months in prison for drugging and sexually assaulting 12 women, and raping another woman.

Mark Meechan, 30, on trial at Airdrie Court, is accused of committing a hate crime by posting a video of him saying 'Sieg Heil' and forcing his dog to perform Nazi salutes.

The vulnerable woman was raped in her home in the Rossmore area of Poole, Dorset, after 10pm on Saturday (30 December). Dorset Police say no arrests have been made.

Freezing weather is set to return to the UK as the remnants of Storm Eleanor leave the British Isles.

Jason Coman and Jennifer Gold, of the North West Counter Terrorism Unit, were dismissed for gross misconduct after spending extended periods of time' in their office on nightshifts

A group of joggers reportedly tried to save the boy's life after he was stabbed in Friars Wharf, Oxford, close to the River Thames, but he sadly died at the scene.

Police say a 44-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene, in Ilford, east London. A 45-year-old man was arrested by detectives at an address in Newham on suspicion of murder

New research has found that more than half of Tory party members in the UK are in favour of the death penalty. IBTimes UK has looked at the problems with state executions.

A 22-year-old man from Lancashire is said to have breached the Public Order Act at a demonstration by a group called the North West Infidels in Blackpool in March 2016.

Andrew Macrae, 43, also secretly wore a female colleague's underwear and admitted to filming up women's dresses on the train on his way to and from work.

The NHS's chief nurse has criticised patients who miss appointments, saying "we are asking patients and the public to use the health service responsibly."

PCSO Jacqui Fairbanks, who works with prostitutes in Hull's Hessle Road, said that many women working in the red light district, had been physically and mentally abused.

Theodore Johnson, 64, killed his former partners in 1981 and 1992, and was twice convicted of manslaughter only to be freed in 1995 to kill Angela Best in December 2016.

Kasim Lewis, 31, has been charged with murder of 22-year-old Luliana Tudos he body was discovered in Finsbury Park, north London, on 27 December.

Following four terror attacks in London in 2017 and the threat level at 'severe', the Metropolitan Police plans to have fewer officers on London's streets on New Year's Eve.

A report predicts millennials will enjoy the biggest and most wide-reaching inheritance boom of any post-war generation, but that it still won't be enough to even out inequality.

Andy Sami Star, 31, and Farhad Salah, 22, both of Iraqi origin, were arrested on 19 December in Yorkshire. They are alleged to have been in possession of a 'low explosive black powder'.

Kevin Pietersen was travelling back to Australia to continue presenting Big Bash League cricket after spending Christmas at home when he was plagued with problems.