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A MAN who was found holding a can of lager with his car keys on his pillow has been banned from the roads for drink driving.

Samples taken from the clothing of an elderly woman found dead in her home in 1967 provided a billion-to-one DNA match for the man accused of raping and murdering her, a court heard. Ryland Headley is ...

A man who stabbed his wife to death as she pushed their baby in a pram told a court he had intended to kill himself in front of her but “lost control” when he thought she was suggesting someone could ...

Tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s sunken superyacht is due to be raised from the seabed off the coast of Sicily this weekend. The 56-metre (184ft) Bayesian is set to be lifted to the surface near the fishing ...

Emergency workers pulled more bodies from the rubble of a nine-story Kyiv apartment building demolished by a Russian missile, raising the death toll from the latest attack on the Ukrainian capital to ...

A proposed change to abortion laws must be “workable and safe”, Downing Street said after MPs voted to decriminalise women terminating their own pregnancies in England and Wales. The Commons voted by ...

The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) must be reformed as public confidence in the rule of law across the continent is “fraying”, the Justice Secretary has said. Shabana Mahmood told the ...

The introduction of proposed legislation to reform the welfare system “marks the moment we take the road of compassion, opportunity and dignity”, the Work and Pensions Secretary has said. Liz ...

A minister has pledged to “sort out” the “appalling mess” of HS2 and confirmed the railway’s opening will be further delayed. Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander told the Commons there is “no route” ...

Sir Keir Starmer will chair a meeting of the emergency Cobra committee to discuss the security situation in the Middle East, the PA news agency understands. The high-level meeting follows the Prime ...