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Man killed in pub shooting

The incident happened at the Newton Arms pub, in Queen’s Road, Croydon, South London just a few hours into the new year

Murder rate drops — thanks to paramedics

Police say Britain is as violent as ever but mobile phones and better ambulance crews are behind a big fall in killings

Female British soldier ‘abused Iraqi prisoners’

Five former detainees have made specific allegations against a female interrogator they knew as 'Katy', including one of male rape

Brothers charged with killing uncle in hit-and-run

Jack Treeby, a 43-year-old father of five, died after being hit by a vehicle in Maidstone, Kent, on Sunday night

COMMENT: Straw should get out more

The Justice Secretary’s remarks on police laziness fail to address the real problem of modern policing: unnecessary form-filling

Straw: police like to be indoors with paperwork

The Justice Secretary provokes fury after claiming some officers use bureaucracy as excuse for not walking beat

Child killer had history of violence against women

Investigation under way into how Andy Copland, a man with a history of violence against women, obtained a gun

Mother dies after father kills daughter

Detectives described a 'very traumatic' scene at the house in Aldershot where the shooting took place

Abdulmutallab's father 'warned CIA'

Airline bomb plot suspect's father met a CIA agent to discuss his son's extremist views but report was not circulated

Father shoots dead child and injures mother

A four-year-old girl was killed when her father opened fire after her mother arrived to drop her off for a visit

Chinese show little sympathy for Shaikh

Comments on websites question why a convicted drug smuggler should receive mercy just because he was foreign

Arrest over theft of rare work on camellias

A Cambridge graduate is alleged to have walked away from RHS Lindley Library with Nouvelle Iconographies des Camellias under his jacket

Delays as airport security tightened

Passengers face long delays and greater restrictions over holidays as airlines immediately put tighter restrictions in place

Airline bomber was barred from Britain

Former student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who allegedly attempted to blow up US jet, had UK visa request refused in May

Airline bomber had been barred from Britain

Former student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab who allegedly attempted to blow up US jet had UK visa request refused in May

Brown reassures as bomb hunt turns to London

Prime minister says UK will protect public as Metropolitan police join FBI investigation into Detroit airliner bomb plot

US jet bomb plot investigation reaches London

Scotland Yard search UK locations in connection with 'British-based' student's alleged attempt to blow up airliner in Detroit

Police challenged over ‘British 9/11’ plot

The Times wins case to force Scotland Yard to say whether US averted plot to fly planes into Canary Wharf and Heathrow

The Times’s 27-month quest for information

A question about President Bush’s claim that covert detention foiled UK terror plots is one Scotland Yard now has to answer

Boy George banned from Celebrity Big Brother

Judge says singer's appearance on show, while on licence for assault, would upset his victim and give him financial gain