A rape offence is reported every hour in London, according to data obtained by the BBC. More than 8,800 rape incidents were ...

A financially-strapped council is seeking residents' views on where it should spend money over the next three years.

A 24-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of assault after a six-year-old boy and a man in his 30s were attacked in ...

United Utilities has apologised to residents who have been left without water for 24 hours. The company said engineers had ...

Follow live text updates as Arsenal face Hacken and Manchester City play Paris FC in qualifying for the Women's Champions League.

A nurse who left her 10-week-old baby home alone while she went to work has been jailed. Ruth Auta, 28, left her son Joshua ...

"I've been seeing the BBC since I was a kid ... That the scammers are likely to be from India is good news for the victims. "In theory, there is no reason that the Indian authorities can't ...

David Henderson BBC Scotland Correspondent Scotland's economy ... While the Greens were in government, some were concerned that economic growth was no longer a priority. Others worried that ...

Hollywood star Idris Elba joined Sir Keir Starmer and experts including police, technology companies and victims' families.

Former BBC news presenter Huw Edwards ... Police did not take any action against him, saying there was no evidence that a criminal offence had been committed. He received between £435,000 ...

"My wife and I were told in no uncertain terms you can't have a child because of the risk of HIV - there was no medication. I was given two years to live,” he told BBC News. "If the child was ...

A mysterious virus once confined to the Amazon is now spreading more widely around the Americas, after undergoing genetic ...