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Knife crime 'overtakes terror as police priority'

Senior officer admits that moves to stop teenagers carrying weapons are not working as new knife-crime unit is announced

Teenager becomes 18th knife victim this year

Three masked and hooded boys attacked Shakilus Townsend, 16, with knives and a baseball bat in a South London doorway

Teenager stabbed to death is 18th victim

Shakilus Townsend, 16, shouted 'I don't want to die' as gang descended on him in broad daylight in South London

Met's boast sets off police alarm in Glasgow

Advertising Standards Authority rules that the City of Glasgow force had been around longer than the Metropolitan Police

Inquiry as role-play uses ‘blacked-up’ actor

The incident occurred in a recruitment process for candidates applying to be overseas liaison officers for the SOCA

Russia rated biggest threat after al-Qaeda and Iran

British security services fear that Russia’s three main intelligence agencies have now flooded the country with agents

Police baffled by French students murder

The bodies of Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez were found bound, gagged and with hundreds of stab wounds and other injuries

Spiritualist world splits over healer

Bitter dispute in world of spiritualism as British head of International Spiritualist Federation is jailed for raping girls

French families call their children home

Director of the prestigious Clermont-Ferrand Polytechnic said families had expressed concern for safety of their children

Confused picture of criminality

As career criminals become more aware of the power of forensics, arson is becoming the favoured method to destroy DNA

Three charged over Ben Kinsella murder

The 16-year-old, the brother of former EastEnders actress Brooke Kinsella, was stabbed to death in Islington, north London

Murdered student's girlfriend pays tribute online

As Scotland Yard investigate frenzied murder of two French research students, bereaved fiancee writes of her grief

Man, 60, 'murdered for confronting bus gang'

A 23-year-old man charged with murder in Co Durham after Stan Dixon was killed after standing up to swearing passengers

Memorial for singer Ian Curtis stolen

Kerbstone memorial for lead singer of Joy Division has been stolen from a cemetery in Macclesfield, Cheshire

Frenchman killed in London stabbed 196 times

Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, who suffered 47 separate injuries, suffered worst wounds ever seen by police chief

French students tortured and murdered in London

Two visiting students who were in the UK to carry out research into a scientific project have been 'horrifically murdered'

Sergeants swamped by paperwork

Report finds frontline sergeants are spending 45 per cent of their time on paperwork in embarrassment for the Home Office