They are seen as a less dangerous option to dog teams or riot police

A handful of retired constituents delivering their local MP a petition might not sound the most terrifying of prospects, but it prompted one Tory politician to call for police protection.

The 20 individuals had accused the Metropolitan Police of Prince "suppressing anti-monarchist sentiment"

Grade-two listed Victorian terrace was left a shell

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The Ukip leader's views about working women are hopelessly out of date, says Margareta Pagano.

Q. I'm keen to visit Punta del Este and/or Montevideo in Uruguay, ideally as a package holiday. But I can't find any operators that do it. And even if I could, would booking individual flights and accommodation be a better strategy? It seems amazing that BA still don't fly direct! Russ Williams, London

The Home Secretary is under increasing pressure from Jewish groups and others to ban the Hungarian ultra-nationalist party from spreading hatred at a London rally this weekend

Daniel, 16, told his mother 'I love you, I promise I won't die' just hours before falling unconscious at a party on a west London industrial estate

The controversial mining tycoon Beny Steinmetz has won what he claimed to be a major victory involving corruption allegations in the troubled west African state of Guinea.

What’s the score?

The pair will meet in Wednesday's Australian Open quarter-final

He said she had 'won the key' to his hotel room, court told

Talks aimed at averting strikes by London Underground workers over Tube ticket office closures are to be held.

Scotland Yard ignored recommendations to review a controversial police tactic deployed against Mark Duggan minutes before he was shot, despite being advised to do so six years earlier, a BBC television programme claims this evening.