A former Cheshire police officer who was dismissed for gross misconduct has been jailed for six months for conducting research while he a juror.

An abattoir in the Midlands has been fined for breaching the law around the treatment of animals.

Former Brookside actor Louis Emerick Grant has pleaded guilty to two counts of causing serious injury to two 12-year-old girls by careless/ inconsiderate driving.

A landowning company in Yorkshire has been fined for allowing vegetation to be burned without a licence in an area of Special Scientific Interest.

The business operator of a slaughterhouse in Chester and six men who worked there have been sentenced for animal welfare offences including, in some cases, causing avoidable pain, distress or suffering to animals

A ticket tout who defied a football banning order to attend the World Cup in Qatar has been jailed.

A man has been jailed for 22 months for helping the gunman who shot dead nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Liverpool last year.

A Cheshire vicar and a woman he was having an affair with have both been jailed for four years for child sexual abuse.

A care worker who started a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old boy at a children’s residential home where she worked has been sentenced.

An Iraqi man who raped a Ukrainian refugee has been jailed for nine years.