The public are encouraged to use mobile phone apps to report issues the police, and drones are also used for surveillance.

A convicted killer who “terrified” Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Tweedy by repeatedly turning up to her home has been jailed. Daniel Bannister, 50, admitted going to the 41-year-old’s Buckinghamshire home ...

The son of an Oxfam volunteer who was struck and killed by a bus on the world’s longest guided busway said it was “such a preventable accident”, a court heard. Three people died in separate incidents ...

Police in Northern Ireland are investigating a potential Islamist terrorist link to a stabbing in Belfast earlier this month, the PA news agency understands. Religious ideology is one of a number of ...

Finn Russell challenged Scotland to add some sheen to their Guinness Six Nations campaign in Paris as he lamented the fact they have only a “disruptor” role to play in this weekend’s three-way ...

Hamas said it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four dual-national hostages who died in captivity.

Claudiu Carol Kondor, 42, was delivering parcels in Leeds last year when “career criminal” Mark Ross, 32, climbed into his van and drove away ...

An actress who was said to have been groped by Noel Clarke denies having been touched inappropriately and said she never spoke to Guardian journalists before they published allegations of sexual ...

Sir Martyn Oliver, chief inspector of Ofsted, said giving parents the information they need in a clear and accessible way was a ‘must-have’.

Labour MP Josh Fenton-Glynn said he would ‘never not be sorry that I’ve written eulogies for my brother but never a best man speech’.

The retailer has been in talks over an initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange over the past year.

New boss Thomas Tuchel has revealed Ben White wants to return to the international fold having previously made himself unavailable for England. The 27-year-old has not featured for the national team ...