The worst benefit cheats could face up to ten years in jail under tough new guidelines announced by the Director of Public Prosecutions.
A Delhi court has sentenced to death four men found guilty of the gang rape and murder of a student in the Indian capital.
Five boys aged between 11 and 15 have been arrested on suspicion of igniting the fire at St Mary’s Catholic Technology College in Leyland, Lancashire.
TV licensing offences, where people are criminally prosecuted for watching television without paying for a valid TV license, now account for a tenth of all criminal prosecutions in the UK according to figures released by the Ministry of Justice.
A man from Wiltshire has been banned from every farm in the UK after admitting to having sexual intercourse with a goat.