A drug addict desperate to change his life walked into a police station carrying crack cocaine and heroin so he would be sent back to prison.

A prolific drug dealer has been jailed after he tried to run away from police and flush cocaine he was pedalling down the loo.

A hammer-wielding man accused of trying to kill a woman and her daughter saw a “shadowy” figure and became “overwhelmingly frightened”, a court heard.

​A teenager who neglected and failed to seek treatment for his ailing pet dog, left in its own faces and urine, has been banned from keeping animals.

Two men and a teenager have been accused of stealing dozens of phones from Vodafone.

A woman who was attacked with a knife and hammer by her mum’s ex-partner has told of her “desperate fight” to stop him.

A fuel company boss who made more than £3 million from supplying cocaine has been ordered to repay a mere fraction.

A prolific shoplifter who hit a prisoner worker with such force that his lower teeth were displaced and pushed under his tongue has been freed.

A 37-year-old man has been sent straight to prison after assaulting several police officers and spitting in a patrol vehicle.

An Audi driver with cocaine in his system sped past a lorry so fast that it "rocked from side to side" just seconds before ploughing into a van.

A woman has appeared in court accused of attempting to murder her daughter.

A brave teenager has revealed how her life was torn apart after she was secretly filmed in the shower by her paedophile brother-in-law.

A man charged with attempted murder following a stabbing in more than two years ago will stand trial.

An ammonia attack by a teenager left a publican temporarily blind and another man with chemical burns to his mouth.

A drink driver arrested on a warrant for failing to attend court to go to his brother’s funeral later received an apology for how “he’d been treated”.

A security guard whose car rolled back into another vehicle on a motorway was found to be more than three times the legal limit to drive.

Two suspects have been charged in connection with drugs supply after several prohibited items were discovered at a property.

A reality star has avoided prison after successfully appealing his prison sentence imposed after his dog bit a runner.

A hammer and knife-wielding man had to be tackled by a neighbour to stop him trying to kill his ex-partner and her daughter, a court has heard.

A scaffolder who threatened to rape and kill his ex-partner in a string of “deeply abhorrent” messages has avoided jail.