A 70-year-old man has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 21 years for the 2013 murder of retired postmistress Una Crown after DNA which matched his profile was found on her nail clippings.

Calvin Parris, 35, from Cardiff, was sentenced to 12 years in jail at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court on Friday after evading justice for four years.

Flowers, 74, who pleaded guilty to a catalogue of fraud, amounting to nearly £100,000, did not appear at court for sentencing.

More homes to temporarily accommodate homeless people will be bought by East Renfrewshire Council after a £1m investment was agreed.

Alice Morrison, 61, averaged 23km per day for seven weeks as she travelled from the Jordanian border to the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah.

It came after she was presented with the lifetime achievement prize at the Berlin International Film Festival.

A senior doctor has told of her “feelings of betrayal” over her son’s death at the hospital where she worked, an inquest heard. William Hewes died aged 22 at Homerton University Hospital in January ...

The gap between male and female life expectancy at birth has fallen from 4.4 years in 1981 to 3.4 years in 2023.

Professor Peter Watson, a lawyer who has represented British families, made the plea ahead of his visit to America to speak about the atrocity.