A drunk driver has been spared jail despite downing several whiskies before driving seven-and-a-half miles against the traffic.

A shopkeeper’s 10 months of “hell” has ended after he was cleared of attacking a 12-year-old boy during an argument over energy drinks.

A motorcyclist has launched a potentially massive High Court damages claim after receiving devastating injuries in an accident.

A confused driver who went against the traffic on a one-way system and fatally injured a motorcyclist has been jailed for two years.

Packages of heroin and crack cocaine were thrown from the windows of a flat as police carried out a raid, a court heard.

A doorman has been jailed after he lashed out at a nightclub customer who accused him of bullying a drunk man.

A tax consultant who stole £6.9 million from workers’ pockets has been jailed for nine and a-half-years.

A 22-year-old man was charged with aggravated vehicle taking after being arrested by police on the M26.

A repeat offender found in a drunken state in a shed he tried to burgle had his sentence reduced after he saved an inmate trying to hang himself.

A man is to go on trial next year charged with endangering a P&O ferry by using a laser light.

A “boy racer” killed a pensioner as he showed off to a pal riding down a street at more than twice the speed limit, having taken cocaine and cannabis.

A thug who tried to rob two taxi drivers by hitting them over the head with glass bottles has been jailed for more than five years.

A father of three who left his brother in a pool of blood in a Travelodge after stabbing him during a fight has been jailed.

A man who tried smuggle two suitcases containing more than £800,000 out of the UK has been jailed for money laundering.

A man viciously attacked two women with a claw hammer leaving them nursing fractured skulls.

Two men have been convicted after a botched armed raid on a store which left an assistant suffering a neck wound.

The owners of a dangerous dog that “scalped” a young child when it clamped its jaws on her head are facing up to five years in jail.

Three men have been charged after four suspected migrants - including a pregnant woman and child - were found adrift on a boat.

A court order has been granted to remove an encampment of 14 caravans from a popular park.

A man accused of holding up a store with a BB gun and taser - where the shopkeeper was shot in the neck - claims he was trying to sell the weapons.