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3:57pm Friday 1st June 2012

Twelve men and two youths have been sentenced for their part in riots during which a police station was firebombed during the disorder last summer.

2:27pm Friday 1st June 2012

Shafilea Ahmed's sister denied telling her police handlers she "made up" the story of how her parents murdered the teenager, a court has been told.

2:13pm Friday 1st June 2012

The "desperately worried" family of a British sailor missing in Dubai have issued a plea for information on his whereabouts.

1:03pm Friday 1st June 2012

An NHS trust has been fined £325,000 by a data protection watchdog after highly sensitive files of tens of thousands of patients, including details of HIV treatment, ended up being sold on eBay.

12:02pm Friday 1st June 2012

Allegations of sexual assault have been made at a training centre for junior soldiers, the Army confirmed.

11:32am Friday 1st June 2012

Former energy secretary Chris Huhne's ex-wife has denied perverting the course of justice by taking a speeding penalty for her former husband.

11:18am Friday 1st June 2012

The boyfriend of a woman found dead in a lake six years ago has won £125,000 libel damages over a police claim that he probably killed her.

10:53am Friday 1st June 2012

A lorry driver has died after his vehicle left the road and overturned, police said.

10:51am Friday 1st June 2012

A man who shot dead an Indian student at close range will go on trial for murder.

10:40am Friday 1st June 2012

The parents of six children killed in a house fire have been remanded into custody at crown court charged with their murder.