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A dedicated foster carer has marked a milestone after caring for more than 200 children over the past five decades. Christine Lunn, 80, who was recognised for her services to fostering with an MBE in ...

Vehicles were set alight outside several French prisons, and one jail was hit by gunfire from an automatic weapon, in a wave of overnight attacks. Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin said the jails had ...

A man has been jailed for life after he murdered his father and hid his body in a cardboard box. Thomas Sykes, of New Street in Burton-upon-Trent, killed his dad Anthony at the flat the pair shared in ...

A search and rescue operation involving a coastguard helicopter and the RNLI ended on land when an emergency beacon was found at a recycling centre. The emergency signal was picked up in Hartlepool by ...

A couple who set up a fresh dog food business after they started cooking for their own dog is investing £10m in new facilities. Different Dog, based in Shrewsbury, has provided freshly cooked dog food ...

A fish-and-chip shop worker turned official royal artist said accompanying the King and Queen on their recent tour of Italy was an amazing experience – and it was "very nice to be asked". The King has ...

Cheryl Louise Pratt, 35, a senior support worker at a home in York, transferred funds from the accounts of five residents into fake online accounts before moving the cash into her own account and ...

The family of a man who died in a crash in Plymouth have said they are "heartbroken and in utter and complete shock". Stephen Hawnton, 63, died at the scene on North Prospect Road on Friday, 11 April.

Aftab Baig, 47, of Paisley Road West, Glasgow, made fraudulent small business grant claims from Leeds City Council during the Covid pandemic in May 2020. Baig, who had no links to Greggs, had claimed ...

Dog owners are being urged to pick up their pets' waste after cow deaths in Surrey were thought to be linked to eating faeces. Chloe Fowles, who farms cattle near Staines, told BBC Radio Surrey she ...

Vandals have destroyed a block of toilets which were being used by employees and visitors of an owl sanctuary in Ebbw Vale. Across two separate incidents, all the toilets and mirrors were smashed ...