A policeman who cheated a farmer out of a share of historic gold coins worth £15,000 found on his land has been sacked.

A murderer who was serving a minimum of 30 years in a Liverpool prison is on the run after two armed men helped him escape.

An elderly Irish woman has found a five pound note worth £50,000 and donated it to 'help young people'.

A new documentary explores the lives of the victims of the 'Elephant Man' drugs trial, in London which left six men including a Kiwi with long-term damage.

Spectres and plucky guests rub shoulders at a Haunted Halloween Gala, writes Suzanne McFadden.

Princess Beatrice has followed in the footsteps of her father the Duke of York by setting herself up as a business matchmaker and winning her first high-profile client.

The retreat comes just hours after it emerged that UK Prime Minister Theresa May had ordered government officials to scrutinise a potential deal.

Meet the company behind New Zealand's first digital currency KiwiSaver-like initiative, My Bitcoin Saver.

Teachers' pay rates should be based on how much progress their students make in their learning, a report says.

A UK man has admitted possessing thousands of indecent images and footage of children which a police officer said were among the worst he had ever seen.

The Church of England's crucial vote on gay marriage has been thrown into doubt after the Bishop of Coventry admitted he accidentally voted against the report.

According to academics, their willingness to wait their turn is governed by a rule of six.

A simple Christmas Day text exchange has snowballed into a nightmare for Donald Trump, and it is nowhere near ending.

A tree surgeon died in a London backyard after a his chainsaw apparently 'kicked back' into his neck.

A woman died from a brain haemorrhage after at least three hospitals refused to admit her for surgery because they had no intensive care beds.

Tara Palmer-Tomkinson died of natural causes and "did not have a brain tumour", her sister has said.

A UK man has been found guilty of attempted rape after he was found in the room of a "frail and vulnerable" 94-year-old.

A UK girl died screaming in pain after a nurse inserted a feeding tube in to the wrong part of her body.

A carved stone statue of Queen Victoria missing from the UK Houses of Parliament for over 100 years has been found in a back garden.

An interior designer was stalked by an obsessed admirer who compared their relationship to the epic ancient Greek poem The Odyssey.

It's a problem a lot of us would like to have, but Britain's youngest EuroMillions winner says she sometimes wishes she had never bought her winning ticket.

A UK mother who allowed her children sleep in her bed has had them taken away from her by a family court judge after social workers raised concerns.

Economists said official growth figures could be upgraded later this month after data showed manufacturing output rose by 2.1pc in December.

A gangster's girlfriend who infiltrated the Metropolitan Police has been jailed for five years.

She was Prince Charles' god-daughter and a former 'It Girl', but Tara Palmer-Tomkinson's frenetic lifestyle eventually took its toll.

The world's oldest police force, formed in 1285 to protect York Minster, has been given back its powers of arrest for the first time in 80 years.

Some return flights to Europe have fallen below $1000 and on sale to London for an "unheard" of $1099.

A married mother in the UK has admitted having 'striptease sex' with a string of schoolboys.

Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, the god-daughter of the Prince of Wales, has died aged 45 after battling a brain tumour.

Disgraced TV entertainer Rolf Harris has expressed gratitude to the jury which found him not guilty of three counts of assaulting two women and a girl.