Policing News
Boy, 10, arrested after 'stone throwing' death crash
A 10-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after a 47-year-old passenger died following a lorry crash in Kent .
Police said a group of young people was seen throwing stones at vehicles just before the lorry and a recovery truck crashed on the A20 on Saturday.
Michael Baker, 47, of Littlehampton in West Sussex, who was in the recovery truck, died in hospital.
The 10-year-old boy has been released on bail after being questioned.
Officers said a group of young people had been seen standing on the grass bank at the wooded side of the A20 near the Swanley interchange before the accident happened at 1100 BST.
As he passed the group, the lorry driver realised something had struck his windscreen and pulled over.
Arrest after fatal van collision in Lancashire
A man has been arrested after a 45-year-old was knocked over and killed by a van in Lancashire.
He was struck by a white Citreon van and became trapped underneath near the Riversway docks in Preston at 1240 BST on Tuesday.
Despite being rescued by the fire service he died on arrival at Royal Preston Hospital.
A 35-year-old from Colwyn Bay was detained on suspicion of death by careless driving and has been bailed.
Men found hanging in Cramlington woods named
The wooded area was cordoned off by police but later re-opened
The names of two young men whose bodies were found in a Northumberland wooded area have been released by police.
Kieran Kenny, 19, and Christopher Harrington, 20, were found in Cramlington on Tuesday morning. Both were from the town.
Few details have been released but it is believed they were found hanging. Police said they were not looking for anyone else in their inquiries.
The two men were found dead at the scene near Brockwell Medical Centre.
Three injured in crash with bus in Coventry.
A woman and two children were injured when their car was involved in a collision with a bus.
Emergency services were called to Langbank Avenue in Coventry during the morning where they said the car and bus had been in a "significant collision".
The woman driver, in her 30s, suffered neck injures while a boy, thought to be about seven-years-old, in the back of the car suffered a head injury.
A girl, about five-years-old, was shaken by the incident.
She had also been in the back of the car and went to hospital as a precaution.
Ambulance staff said a male front seat passenger was uninjured. No one travelling on the bus was injured.
Two charged with murder over Loughborough stabbing
Two people have been charged following the death of a 23-year-old man in Leicestershire.
Nitu Babu Das, 23, of Cleeve Mount, Loughborough, was attacked in Meadow Lane in the early hours of Monday morning and died later.
A 38-year-old man and a woman aged 45 have been charged with murder. The woman has also been charged with perverting the course of justice.
They will both appear at Loughborough Magistrates Court on Wednesday morning.
Police are still appealing for witnesses.
Finance manager sentenced for Friends Provident fraud
A Wiltshire financial manager has been sentenced to three years in jail for swindling a life assurance firm out of more than £2m.
Paul Wood, 48, from South Wraxall, near Bradford-on-Avon, admitted eight charges of fraud at an earlier hearing at Swindon Crown Court.
He used the money taken from Friends Provident to fund a lavish lifestyle including a chalet in the French Alps.
The judge said Wood's sole motivation was greed.
Man charged over Gosport street stabbing
A 45-year-old has been charged after a man was stabbed in a Hampshire street.
Paramedics were called after the 34-year-old suffered injuries in Prideaux-Brune Avenue, Gosport, on Sunday.
The 45-year-old man, of Prideaux-Brune Avenue, has been charged with wounding with intent and was due to appear before magistrates in Portsmouth.
The injured man was taken to Queen Alexandra Hospital where his condition has been described as serious but stable.
Man arrested over sex attack on girl in West Sussex
A man has been arrested after a 14-year-old girl was seriously sexually assaulted near the seafront in a West Sussex town.
The teenager was attacked in an area just off Beach Crescent, Littlehampton, when she refused the advances of a man who had offered her money for sex.
Sussex Police said the girl, who had spent the day with a friend, had spoken to him after her companion left.
Officers said a 19-year-old man was arrested and was being held in custody.
Det Sgt Tracy Edwards said: "This incident came about as a result of a very specific set of circumstances and we do not wish the public in general to be unduly alarmed.
"However, this was a frightening attack on a vulnerable young girl, who understandably has been left distressed by what has happened to her."
The force has also appealed for information about the incident, which happened at about 2130 BST on 19 July.
Man admits 1989 rape in Burnley after DNA match
A 51-year-old man from Glasgow has admitted raping a woman in Burnley more than 20 years ago.
The 22-year-old woman was approached on Briercliffe Road in 1989, forced into a car and attacked by two men before being left on a country road.
Leslie Marshall, of Stonefield Road, Blantyre, was arrested by Lancashire Police's cold case team last October after his DNA was linked to the case.
He admitted rape at Burnley Crown Court and will be sentenced on 24 August.
Police said the woman was attacked in the early hours of 18 January as she walked home from a friend's house.
She was driven to a secluded location in the Robin House Lane area of Briercliffe where she sexually assaulted by two men, and then dumped on a road in the dark.
She managed to run to a nearby house and raise the alarm.
