A man tried to escape from a first-floor window as police swooped on a property.

Staff were shocked and disappointed to find their much-loved preschool had been damaged by vandals.

A man is said to have exposed himself to a woman after pretending to be interested in buying her beach hut.

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.

Sarah Everard’s parents are calling for tougher sentences for violent offenders that “reflect the seriousness of the crime”.

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.

Armed police descended on a street after a person was spotted with a weapon.

CCTV images have been released of a group of men following an alleged assault in a high street.

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 much-missed grandmother’s gravestone has been stolen for a second time leaving her family speechless.

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

A police investigation is underway after a man is said to have exposed himself along a river footpath.

Police have charged a female suspect with attempted murder after a woman was stabbed at a home.

A late-night crash woke residents as the driver reportedly fled the scene.

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 fish and chip van owner has been forced to take his vehicle off the road after a plant pot was launched through its window.

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.