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'Shame' of affair boss outed online

Wednesday, 15 June 2011

A plumber used Twitter and a host of websites to expose graphic details about his wife's "deceitful" affair.

12 bailed in 'sexploitation' probe

Wednesday, 15 June 2011

The twelve men were arrested over the alleged grooming and sexual abuse of vulnerable young girls.

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'I'm fine', Joss Stone tells fans

Wednesday, 15 June 2011

Singer spoke as police questioned two men on suspicion of conspiracy to rob and murder.

Click to watch video Joanne Fraill, left, used Facebook while sitting as a juror to contact Jamie Sewart who had been on trial

Juror faces prison for Facebook chat that wrecked £6m trial

Wednesday, 15 June 2011

Matt Blake: Distraught mother of three makes legal history after using the internet to commit contempt of court.

Ten arrested in swoop on suspected child sex gang

Wednesday, 15 June 2011

A group of men accused of being sexual predators, grooming vulnerable young girls for "horrific abuse" and sex parties, were arrested in morning raids yesterday.

Phone firms dispute Met's hacking role

Wednesday, 15 June 2011

Britain's biggest mobile phone networks yesterday denied claims by a senior police officer that Scotland Yard had "ensured" that the operators contacted all potential victims of voicemail hacking.

Sex offenders get chance to come off register

Wednesday, 15 June 2011

Up to 1,200 sex offenders will be able to challenge their life-long inclusion on the sex offender register under moves announced yesterday by Home Secretary Theresa May.

A  40-year-old west London man was arrested today by detectives investigating Milly Dowler's death in 2002

Milly Dowler father 'one of 54 quizzed'

Tuesday, 14 June 2011

Milly Dowler's father was one of 54 suspects investigated by police following her murder, the Old Bailey heard today.

Click to watch video Nigel Leat  filmed the abuse involving five girls over the course of five years

Abuse teacher jailed indefinitely

Tuesday, 14 June 2011

Nigel Leat filmed the abuse involving five girls over the course of five years at a school in Somerset.

15 years for sex offenders review

Tuesday, 14 June 2011

Paedophiles and rapists who want to be removed from the sex offenders register will have to wait 15 years before they can apply for a review, the Home Office has said.

Raids target men over child sex exploitation

Tuesday, 14 June 2011

Police were carrying out a series of raids this morning against men involved in the sexual exploitation of teenage girls.

Juror faces jail over contempt of court

Tuesday, 14 June 2011

Joanne Fraill is the first juror ever to be prosecuted for contempt of court involving the internet.

International paedophile ring leaders jailed

Monday, 13 June 2011

Three men were jailed today after they admitted running an international paedophile ring that distributed millions of indecent images and films of children to over 40 countries around the world.

McCann plea for support in missing person cases

Monday, 13 June 2011

Nothing protects the families of missing people left behind, Kate McCann has said.

Murder probe after van man is run over

Monday, 13 June 2011

Detectives are questioning a man over the murder of a delivery driver - who was run over by his own van.

Bramble denies raping teenage girl

Monday, 13 June 2011

The brother of Premier League footballer Titus Bramble told police investigating claims he raped a 19-year-old woman: "They don't just come back to the hotel to go to sleep, they come back for sex," a jury was told today.

Jail warning over unburied granny

Monday, 13 June 2011

A mother and daughter who left the corpse of a grandmother unburied for up to six months while one of them pocketed her pension were told they face jail today.

Mohammed Khaliel lives in High Wycombe and was among horrified families who discovered Muslim graves at a local cemetery had been desecrated on 20 April

Muslims call for action against hate crimes

Sunday, 12 June 2011

Andrew McCorkell: Islamophobic attacks have been on the rise, with an increase in assaults, vandalised mosques and desecrated graves.

Andy Gilchrist, the former Fire Brigades Union leader, said he had seen police papers in the case dating back to 2001

Police investigating a wider timescale for hacking scandal

Sunday, 12 June 2011

James Hanning: At least three complaints fall outside the period 'News of the World' admits it acted unlawfully.

Man charged with canal woman murder

Sunday, 12 June 2011

A 42-year-old man will appear in court tomorrow charged with murdering a woman whose body was found in a canal.

Two accused of ex-policeman murder

Sunday, 12 June 2011

Two men will appear in court tomorrow charged with murdering a former police officer.

Rupert Murdoch has apparently put a 'complete firewall' around the 'News of the World' investigation

Murdoch sends in lawyers to clean up News International

Saturday, 11 June 2011

Staff at Wapping HQ are sidelined as media mogul finally loses patience with the phone-hacking scandal.

Met commits six officers to Rees evidence

Saturday, 11 June 2011

Scotland Yard is believed to have committed six officers to comb through the mass of evidence it holds on the private detective Jonathan Rees.

The 7th Marquess of Bath, Alexander Thynn

'Wifelets' fight over affections of Lord Bath

Saturday, 11 June 2011

A jealous "wifelet" of the practising polygamist Lord Bath has been arrested after fighting with a love rival.

Deaths of girl and woman 'unexplained'

Saturday, 11 June 2011

The bodies of a woman and a five-year-old girl were found by a visitor to a house in Stratford-upon-Avon yesterday morning.

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