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Girl raped at Royal Highland Show ball

Mother appeals for witnesses after her 17-year-old daughter is shoved into a portable toilet and sexually assaulted

Ban slapped on book by former anti-terror chief

The bar on sales of The Terrorist Hunters by Andy Hayman was issued by a High Court judge hours before shops opened

Banknote-sorting night manager stole £2m

Earl Walker, 50, lived in a council house but drove a Mercedes, lived in luxury and bought a three-story house in Canada

Cherie Booth urges closure of prisons

Inquiry into English prisons criticises criminal justice "hyperactivity" of final years of Major and Blair governments

Mystery man critically ill after acid attack

A gang of men wearing gloves and masks threw acid over victim's face and then stabbed him as he walked along the street

Chilling pictures released as Moors body hunt ends

Police have given up search for murder victim Keith Bennett on Saddleworth Moor after hunt prompted by Ian Brady images

Stabbed pensioner was afraid to go out alone

Husband of knife victim Ann Driscoll says after he was mugged four times his wife was nervous about going out by herself

Card firms face ban on 'exploiting' debtors

Team of police, trading standards and Office of Fair Trading officials to be set up, pooling resources to counter scammers

Vicar charged over 'sham marriages plot'

A 60-year-old vicar in a Sussex seaside town has been accused of a marriage scam to help people enter Britain illegally

Ronnie Biggs to challenge parole refusal

Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, says that the Great Train Robber could reoffend and has shown no remorse for his crime

Desolate moors keep their secrets

The landscape that attracted Moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley has remained untouched for thousands of years

Straw refuses 'unrepentant' Biggs parole

Justice Secretary defies Parole Board and will not allow Great Train Robber to go into care home because 'he flouted the law'

Ronnie Biggs on the brink of freedom

Jack Straw will sign his parole papers despite concerns Great Train Robber may play on notoriety, The Times is told

Police left DNA samples in freezer with ice cream

Inspection of West Yorkshire Police facilities finds vital forensic samples poorly labelled, lost or mishandled

Woman, 82, 'caked in blood' after random attack

Ann Driscoll, a full-time carer, suffered nine stab wounds during an apparently random attack in Harlesden, northwest London

Pensioner defeated burglar with a right hook

Frank Corti, 72, a former soldier, confronted knife-wielding neighbour who has been jailed for four-and-a-half years

Pensioner stabbed nine times in daylight attack

Ann Driscoll, 82, was attacked as she carried her shopping home in West London yesterday afternoon

Teenager stabbed man 142 times

19-year-old Peter Allen found guilty of murdering a man who was found in a pool of blood with a kitchen knife in his head

Terror material was propaganda, appeal is told

Counsel for Mohammed Atif Siddique claims that terror-related material produced at his trial was "mere propaganda"

Police release e-fit of rapist who strikes monthly

Man has struck at the end of the month for the past three months and murdered his last victim, prompting unprecedented DNA sweep