An "appalling bully" is facing jail for brutal attacks on his wife, described by a judge as the most harrowing and distressing case he had heard.

A policeman from Kent has been allowed to use the internet - despite being sacked and jailed for showing animal porn to fellow officers.

A man was fined almost £10,000 for failing to tidy up his eyesore garden after promising magistrates he would.

A father who brandished a knife and hurled racist abuse at a supermarket security guard in front of two of his young children has been locked up.

A mother and her daughter won £40,000 damages after a judge ruled a council unlawfully took the child into care for two years.

A prolific burglar, wearing a black and white stripey jumper and no shoes, deliberately woke his victim to tell him his house had been broken into.

A drug addict infected with deadly hepatitis tried to bite police officer after she stopper her robbing a woman.

A London man has been charged with rape following a report of a serious sex assault in a car park.

Claims that fruit farm workers are being exploited have been denied by an employment agency.

A drink-driver rammed a police car three times with his truck during a 30-minute chase - stopping only when he was tasered and struck with batons.

A man and woman have denied murdering a pensioner whose decomposing body was found at his home.

A thug who punched, kicked and bit his ex-partner and threatened to kill her in a series of attacks fuelled by jealousy has been locked up.

A killer jailed for the murder of schoolgirl Claire Tiltman, who was stabbed to death more than 20 years ago, will have his appeal heard next month.

A man who repeatedly abused a young girl over an 11-year period has been locked up and ordered to sign the sex offenders' register for life.

A cocaine dealer has been jailed after stabbing a man in the back during a row about drugs in a daylight park attack.

Two drug dealers who were caught with more than £100,000 worth of cocaine have been jailed for a total of more than 11 years.

A man has been banned from the roads after driving into a village pond while over the limit.

A former children's football coach has gone on trial charged with four counts of raping a child.

A former football coach raped one boy and molested four others in offences dating back almost 40 years.

A woman contacted the police after finding pictures of child abuse on a phone she was looking after for a friend.