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Northumbria Police have charged Mark Smith, 41, with the murder of Jillian Grant whose body was found in a North Shields house on Christmas day.

Natasha Claus, 36, of no fixed abode, has been jailed for 13 months and banned from Woking town centre after arriving at Guildford Crown Court four hours late.

The figures showed that of 4.2m crimes recorded in 2016/17 suspects were identified in 2m. The Sun found that there was also a disparity across England and Wales between forces.

A 19-year-old Romanian woman was forced into prostitution from a London flat after being trafficked into the UK and having glamour photos taken.

Callum Walker, 23, was out with friends in Sutton Coldfield when he was stabbed in his head, chest and hand after altercation in the early hours of 23 December.

Britain's first gold coin, which was scrapped after a minting blunder almost 800 years ago, is tipped to sell for up to $500,000 at auction.

Adam Nicholls and Alexandra Knight both spent Christmas working in children's intensive care wards but spent Boxing Day searching for their missing cat after a callous burglary.

The satellite has been tasked to provide communication and broadcast services for next 15 years.

Mark Nesmith, from Coventry, was stabbed to death by Tyler Smith outside a BP garage in Butts Road, Spon End. Smith, 21, has been jailed for life with a minimum of 22 years.

Pc Adam Cox, 31, was working in Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection when he used the photo of a Canadian woman, who committed suicide at the age of 21, for an online alter ego.

A man in his 20s was shot in the head with a shotgun in front of shocked Christmas shoppers at lunchtime in Southport town centre, Merseyside, on Thursday (21 December).

Gale force winds on the Shetland Islands on 7 December left a four-year-old orca stranded on a grassy field near Eshaness on the west coast.

Ismael Watson, formally Jack Watson, from Walsall, has been jailed for planning to join Isis before his pregnant wife told the authorities.

British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe who has been held in Iran for more than 18 months is eligible for early release.

Karl Anderson, 29, was sentenced to 16 weeks imprisonment after pleading guilty to racially aggravated common assault outside Manchester City's training ground.

Former police officer Andrew Stevenson, of Morriston, Swansea, screamed 'she has taken everything from me' as he launched into the attack in September 2017.

Heroin addict Kieron West from Leicester left the corpse of his postman dad Peter in his house for three weeks and spent his wages. He has been jailed for 40 months.

Police questioning a number of suspects in relation to planning of possible terror attacks in the UK.

Three Finnish men Jussi Petteri Munck, Kimo Tapani Naivo, Mika Tapio Soininem and Irishman James O'Byrne charged with manslaughter over death of Steven Allford at Malaga Airport.

Homeless drug-user Aaron Barley, 24, admitted to stabbing Tracey Wilkinson, 50, and her teenage son Pierce at their home in Stourbridge, West Midlands, in March this year.

Errol Hanson, 51, from Catford, south London, knifed Mohammed Savare more than 50 times after the burglar headbutted and punched him, Southwark Crown Court was told.

Diane Chilcott, 40, and Daniel Pusey, 21, plied girls aged from 13 to 15 with cigarettes and alcohol before driving them to hotels, where they were sexually exploited.

Wendy Thomas, 50, from Cardiff in South Wales, was stopped by border control officers in October 2016 at the Eurotunnel terminal with 3 illegal immigrants in their car.

Daniel Aimson, 36, formerly an officer with Greater Manchester Police (GMP) was at the head of a drugs gang selling cannabis in Manchester and North Wales.

Christopher Parker, 33, who has 84 previous convictions, attacked 91-year-old Audrey Bremner in a street mugging 100 metres from her home in Blyth, Northumberland.

The Institute for Public Policy Research has called for the creation of a new customs union within which the UK would be able to opt out of EU rules in specific areas.

Prince Harry will soon be making his editorial debut, heading up an edition of the BBC's flagship morning radio news programme, Today, starring a very special guest.

It has been revealed that despite a cut in the speed limit, there has been an increase in deaths in one region of the UK.

Divorcee Alun Jones, 51, from Newport, South Wales, bled to death on his bedroom floor after committing hara-kiri when he returned from a trip to Japan.

John Walshaw, 56, from Grimsby, was branded a 'paedo' after being spotted with a half-dressed 15-year-old girl and a bottle of wine down an alley.