A fire which extensively damaged an Orange hall in Portadown is being treated as arson by the Fire Service
Up to 18 firefighters attended the blazeThe County Fermanagh offices of Sinn Fein MP Michelle Gildernew have been severely damaged in a suspicious fire.
Damien French outside court during an animal cruelty trial in 2006A woman felt "violated" when a man pulled off her religious headscarf - hijab - as she walked along a north Wales street pushing a pushchair.
Colleagues of a man suspected of shooting his wife dead before killing himself at their County Down home have been paying sympathy to the families.
A three-year-old girl has survived a "targeted" shooting at a house that left three dead and two injured.
Police were called to reports of the incident at a house in Plaw Hatch Close, Bishop's Stortford, on Tuesday.
Two men, aged 33 and 52, and a 17-year-old boy died at the scene. Two women, aged 23 and 54, were injured.
They are in a critical but stable condition in hospital. The girl, aged three, was found in the house unharmed. Police have begun a murder inquiry.
She said officers are looking for two slim Asian men in connection with the attack.
The pair were seen making off from the scene in a small red car, and were described by police as being aged in their late teens or early 20s.
================================================
Father and son killed in shooting
Mrs Cowell's husband and son were shot dead after she left for workA father and son were two of three people shot dead at their family home in Hertfordshire.
Police are investigating two shootings, one involving a 14-year-old boy, at the Notting Hill Carnival.
A man in his 20s was injured in a stabbing.
In total there were 206 arrests during the two-day event, the majority on Monday.
However, what we witnessed from 1700 BST that afternoon shows that there was a hardcore, mainly of young men, who came to carnival not to enjoy the event but to fight, commit crime and cause trouble.
"Our officers had to work hard and deliver a strong interventionist style of policing late into the night to make sure that these criminals were not allowed to take over the streets of Notting Hill.
"Unfortunately, we witnessed groups fighting; objects being thrown at police and large groups of youths pushing roughly through crowds.
"Two young men were shot, fortunately not seriously injured, and a small number of people suffered minor stab wounds.
A teenager has been charged with killing a man who died following a street attack on Tyneside.
A man has been found murdered outside a block of flats in south-east London.
Police are keen to trace a couple seen near the parkDetectives are investigating the "horrendous" rape of a woman near a park in Clydebank.
Her attacker was white, blonde and stocky, aged about 18 or 19 and was wearing a white tracksuit.
The attack happened near Our Lady's High SchoolA man has been arrested and charged in connection with the rape of a 16-year-old girl in Cumbernauld.
A motorcyclist has been shot dead while riding along the M40 in Warwickshire.
 No weapon has been found, said Northumbria Police |
 Police have cordoned off the scene of the stabbing in Dunstable |
Christopher Martin, 52, of Holmes Road, Weston-super-Mare, was convicted of 33 counts of rape and 10 serious acts of assault and gross indecency.
He was arrested by police in December 2005 and jailed by a judge at Bristol Crown Court on Friday.
Det Con Philip Aspinall said: "We are pleased with the verdict and hope that this should give some closure."  Mr Newlove was fatally injured after confronting a group of youths |
 Porter remains a Jehovah's Witness |
Police have issued a photo-fit of a sex attacker, who may be targeting young surfers on Gower beaches.Save Now 
The alarm was raised by one of the boys' parents
Police have received the results of a post mortem examinationA 42-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a man whose body was found dumped in a bin in east Belfast.
A 12-year-old boy was charged with assault and taken before the courts - for throwing a cocktail sausage
The boy's mother described the prosecution as a joke.... The boy was accused of throwing the pork snack at a 74-year-old man in Woodhouse Park, south Manchester.
Asked whether she accepted that he needed to be punished, she told the BBC: "Definitely yes, but not to the extent that they have gone."
My only comment for this mother is that her son ausaulted someone, never mind with what, denied it in court and has record. Obviously her methods aren't working if the courts don't work he will probably end up murdering someone because of her neglegence.
