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Innocent family caught up in gangland feud as men in balaclavas poured petrol into wrong home and set it ablaze while they slept

Jody Lynam was jailed for six years and nine months

Home with hundreds of thousands of cockroaches like a horror movie, pest controller says

One pest control association said it had heard of "increased cockroach activity in some urban areas".

Mary McAdorey: Man in court on domestic abuse-related charges after woman’s death

The 41-year-old has been charged with a number of offences

Infantino installs loyalist to oversee Caribbean as he splits Fifa management

Critics view Fernandes job as move to shore up position Fifa says change is designed to make sport ‘truly global’ Gianni Infantino has separated Fifa’s management of the Caribbean countries from the rest of Concacaf in…

Readers' letters: Swinney should hang his head in shame over Pisa results

A reader says the decline in Scottish educational standards is damning indictment of the SNP

Who gets the whisky collection when a marriage is over?

Assets that sit outside the traditional categories can throw up interesting questions during a separation, says ​​Amanda Masson

Mum's teenage son disappeared 24 years ago and her hope and pain remain on his 40th birthday

Cheryl Davies last saw Robert Williams in March 2002 and she still thinks of him 'every minute of every single day'

Criminal Record: Knife thug stranded on 20ft fence as bomb threat probe launched

Criminal Record has brought together a round-up of today's biggest crime stories.

Private hospital’s failures contributed to death of Richard Branson’s wife, inquest finds

Lady Joan Branson, 80, died on November 24 after suffering a cardiac arrest at the private Lister Hospital in Chelsea, west London, which is owned and operated by HCA Healthcare

San Gil is Colombia’s adrenaline-fuelled adventure capital

From whitewater rafting to paragliding and caving, Suzanne Bearne escaped her fears in a thrillseeking part of South America

Last ditch battle to save former Birmingham youth centre from council fire sale

Campaigners still hope to halt the sale of Halescroft Centre in Bartley Green but the signs don't look good

Google picks Finland for its largest single investment in Europe

The US tech giant says the €13bn data centre project will create tens of thousands of jobs.

Trial of farmer hears vet describe humanely euthanising starving calf being kept in trailer alongside decomposing carcass

UK must move fast to develop tokenised fun

​​Jamie Marshall says we have a chance to steal a march on global competitors

'Huge bang' heard on Toxteth street as black smoke pours from flat

A 40-year-old man has been arrested

August was world's joint hottest month on record, say scientists

August was the world's joint hottest month ever recorded - at 1.65C above pre-industrial times, according to scientists.

Phillipson sets up 'class unit' as social mobility advisers ditched

The equalities minister says the move will bring government efforts to tackle disadvantage "in-house".

Why is Trump silent on UK sanctions against Israeli West Bank settlements? – The Latest

The foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, is facing a backlash over the government’s sanctions against illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank after the chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, said the safety of British Jews could…

Private hospital’s failures ‘contributed to death of Sir Richard Branson’s wife’

Inside the IT ‘glitch’ that triggered UK flight chaos – and the warnings issued three years ago

With problems mounting again for the UK’s air traffic control provider, Alex Ross looks at the warning signs from the last major meltdown in 2023

An education in the arts should be available to all | Letters

Readers respond to an editorial calling for Andy Burnham to relieve pressure on arts funding in English schools Your editorial on the decline of music and drama in state schools (4 September) is right to highlight what…

The Bayeux tapestry: why more women should be stitched into the fabric of history | Letters

Readers respond to the loan of the Bayeux tapestry I enjoyed your photograph of Andy Burnham, Macron and King Charles admiring the Bayeux tapestry and the king’s comment about the “entente amicale” between France and th…

Spyware can easily fall into the wrong hands – investors should take note | Letter

The reported targeting of student activists in Serbia is an example of increased misuse, with serious consequences for the commercial spyware industry The targeting of Serbian activists with advanced spyware (Report, 4…

Full list of over 30 Sayers and Pound Bakery sites listed as 'permanently closed'

The company said some locations were "no longer commercially viable"