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Defence secretary John Healey has twice declined to rule out Britain joining strikes on Iran, when asked by Sky News.

Twice, the air raid sirens sounded around RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus this afternoon. We were rushed inside as soldiers lay on the floor in body armour. It was over quickly.

A woman who smuggled an arsenal of "terrifying weapons" and £500,000 worth of heroin into Britain in her Peugeot has been jailed for nine years.

A teenage boy has been seriously injured in a stabbing at a school in Nottingham.

UK average diesel costs have hit a 16-month high, less than a week after war gripped the Middle East and sent oil costs rocketing.

Epping Forest District Council has launched a legal challenge to a ruling against its plan to stop asylum seekers from being housed in a local hotel.

Tributes have been paid to a "deeply loved" young woman who was killed in a head-on collision during a police pursuit. 

Nottingham triple killer Valdo Calocane put a flatmate in a headlock and trapped him in his flat, an inquiry has heard.

The home secretary has admitted the politics of migration is "difficult" for Labour as she announced measures to tighten Britain's asylum system.