THE Labour government has claimed to have reduced knife homicides by more than a quarter after taking 63,000 knives taken off our streets since the July 2024 General Election. The Home Office today announced that knife homicides have fallen by 27 percent and knife-point robberies and hospital admissions for stabbings down by 10 percent and 11 percent respectively. It comes as next week the Government will launch its plan that it hopes will halve knife crime within a decade t

CELEBRITY peer Lord Brocket has denied five sexual offences against the same woman. Lord Charles Brocket, 74, a former contestant on I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!, appeared at Isleworth Crown Court today<April 1 2026> after being charged with two counts of rape last and three sexual offence charges against the woman last August. Lord Brocket (above in a still image from the hit ITV show), who is being prosecuted under his full name of Charles Nall-Cain Brocket, is cha

LONDON'S most crime-riddled hotspot is rarely proactively policed by the Met Police during the week, a probe by UK News and Investigations can reveal. An audit of police foot patrols in and around Leicester Square throughout 2025 found that during the week there was rarely a visible police presence from Sunday to Thursday unless some other form of proactive operation, such as targeting mobile phone thefts, was underway. The audit found that the force often displayed a good pr

THE former manager of Macclesfield FC's website, who was sacked after he pleaded guilty to offences involving indecent images of children, told police he inadvertently received the material after paying for what he thought was adult pornography, it can be revealed. Daniel Taylor, 31, who had been running its website, was dismissed after he admitted four offences involving indecent images of children at Crewe Magistrates' Court in February. Taylor, from Cranford Road, Wilmslow

Met detectives are appealing for information following a collision between a motorcycle and a pedestrian on Trafalgar Square. Police were called at 9:20pm on Saturday, 28 March 2026 to reports of a collision on Trafalgar Square by the junction of Spring Gardens, WC2N. Officers attended alongside the London Ambulance Service. The pedestrian, a woman in her 40s, sustained life-threatening injuries and was taken to hospital, where she remains. Her next-of-kin have been informed

PICCADILLY Circus tube station was closed as armed police mobbed the area after reports of a man with a knife. This exclusive picture shows armed officers in the area yesterday, March 21 2026, just after 10:30pm. According to a source police were searching for suspects while emergency services were also on the scene. A British Transport Police spokesperson said: "Officers were called to Piccadilly Circus Underground station at 10.17pm on Saturday (21 March) following reports

The Met Police has authorised the country’s first charge for tailgating at a football match, following the Carabao Cup Final in Wembley on Sunday, 22 March. A man in his 20s was arrested at the final and charged at 19:45hrs on Sunday, 22 March. Benjamin Bailey, 27 (06.08.1998) of Fifth Avenue in Oldham, Manchester, will appear at Willesden Magistrates’ Court on Friday, 1 May in connection with the alleged offence. Two other men were arrested on suspicion of the same offence a

THREE men who horrifically abused their partners or exes man have been jailed following investigations by Staffordshire Police. They include Dale Vincent Cole, 39, (above left) of Burton-on-Trent, who was found guilty of the murder of his partner of five years, Lisa Holland, following a trial at Stafford Crown Court, which concluded on Friday 20 March 2026. He was also found guilty of three counts of Section 18 – grievous bodily harm with intent. He pleaded guilty to controll

VITAL CCTV evidence used to convict criminals during trials could be undermined by "deepfakes" as they get ever more sophisticated, the boss of the National Crime Agency (NCA) has warned. NCA Director General Graeme Biggar gave the stark warning as he unveiled the agency's strategic threat assessment of organised crime for this year published this week, March 17 2026, saying organised crime groups would use AI technology to exploit more victims and try to compromise the crimi

A website that made millions of pounds from the sale of illegal drugs has been infiltrated by Met Police officers in their latest major operation to crack down on cybercrime In June 2025, the Met’s Cyber Crime Unit became aware of AEGIS Marketplace, a site where individual sellers could market drugs for sale to users who could make purchases using cryptocurrency. By March 2026, the website had 30 active sellers and was estimated to have generated 10,000 drug sales in ten mont