V2 Radio

There has been a "worrying decline" in families approved to adopt a child, a charity has warned.

Major retailers on London's high streets are using new technology from the Metropolitan Police to catch shoplifters.

The criteria given to GPs to refer women at risk of breast cancer for further action miss nearly all under-50s who go on to develop the disease within a decade, analysis suggests. 

Detectives have offered a £20,000 reward for information leading them to a man they want to arrest over the murder of Finbar Sullivan.

Dividing lines between victim groups, fears about prisons becoming full again by Christmas, and concerns that these changes will lead to "inevitable mistakes" – probably not the intended outcomes of the prime minister's urgent review on early release, but that's the reality.

A teenage girl who was abducted in Essex last night is back with her family, police say.

NHS staff have been called "dirty foreigners" and "monkeys" amid a "noticeable" and "unacceptable" rise in racism from patients, a survey has found.

Profit has again more than doubled at oil and gas giant BP as the war in Iran boosted fossil fuel prices.