A teenager has been stabbed to death outside Upney Tube Station in east London. The 17-year-old is thought to have been involved in a fight with a group of youths in Upney Lane, Barking. Officers arrived at around 7.25pm last night, but the boy died
Rock star Pete Doherty is due in court over drug charges this afternoon. The Babyshambles singer, 26, faces four counts of possessing drugs, including morphine, heroin, crack cocaine and cannabis. Officers arrested him on December 4 after pulling him
UPDATED 16.10pm: Fears are growing for the health of a large whale trapped in the Thames in Central London. A rescue attempt of the 17ft (5m) mammal, a northern bottle-nosed whale usually found deep in the ocean is about to start. The whale has passed
Putney police station, which closed last week, will re-open today following protests. The decision to reopen - with reduced hours - was taken by Borough Commander Joe Royle. He said: "Following discussions with Putney MP Justine Greening and the council
Two men have been charged with the murder of City lawyer Tom ap Rhys Price yards from his home in north-west London. Donnel Marcus Carty, 19, and a 17-year-old male will also face charges of robbing both Mr ap Rhys Price and a second man at Kensal Green
Reaching for a cuppa was all in a day's work for a Kingston University illustration and animation graduate who has won a BBC award for her film about tea. Lucy Izzard, 22, won the BBC's New Animator Awards for her two-minute 30 seconds-long film, Tea
A school caretaker who admitted spying on a 17-year-old teenager has resigned. Peter Brennan, 50, was working and living at Beatrix Potter School, in Magdalen Road, Wandsworth, when he was caught looking at the girl for "sexual gratification" through
A six-year-old boy with severe cancer has been told his case is not regarded as "serious enough" to warrant a much-needed move to a new home. The family of Alfie Smith, who suffers from acute lymphocytic leukaemia, are desperate to move him from his
A jilted lover who stabbed his ex-partner five times and forced their son to tie her up while she lay bleeding has been jailed for 12 years. Andrew Harding, 41, lay in wait for Deborah Fisher at her house in Wardley Street, Earlsfield, and stabbed her
