1+ hour, 29+ min ago  (750+ words) A former foster carer has been jailed for 30 years after he drugged and raped young girls and lulled them into a "false sense of security" to abuse them in his home. Bradley Dilsworth, 69, was convicted of 22 child sex offences between…...

1+ hour, 29+ min ago  (189+ words) American rapist Nicholas Rossi, who fled to Scotland after appearing to fake his own death in an attempt to escape justice, has died in hospital in the United States. The 38-year-old, who is also known as Nicholas Alahverdian, had been…...

2+ hour, 9+ min ago  (450+ words) Newly appointed Police Ombudsman Jacqui Durkin is facing calls to release a delayed report into the loyalist murder of journalist Martin O'Hagan. The 51-year-old was shot dead by LVF members in September 2001, as he made his way home from a…...

7+ hour, 37+ min ago  (365+ words) Comedian Hardeep Singh Kohli is to stand trial next year accused of rape and other sex offences. He faces 20 charges involving five women between 2006 and 2022 at locations including the BBC Studios at Pacific Quay in Glasgow and the Radisson Hotel…...

6+ hour, 26+ min ago  (425+ words) Police are appealing for information after a protected golden eagle released in the Scottish Borders in February was found with shotgun injuries. Scans and treatment revealed four-year-old Squeagle had been shot and had at least 17 shotgun pellets lodged in her…...

6+ hour, 29+ min ago  (508+ words) Thirteen co-defendants of a man accused of conspiring to drug and rape his unconscious wife can be named. Reporting restrictions on identifying the men from across the UK were lifted on Friday ahead of a trial in Manchester later this…...

3+ hour, 35+ min ago  (355+ words) Former Trump administration national security adviser'John Bolton'pleaded guilty on Friday to illegally retaining classified information, sealing a deal with federal prosecutors that could allow him to avoid a prison term. Bolton, who became an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump…...

3+ hour, 6+ min ago  (508+ words) A woman whose arm was partially amputated after being injured in a fall has lost a "1m compensation claim over her treatment at two Northern Ireland hospitals. High Court judge Mr Justice O'Hara ruled today she had failed to establish any…...

2+ hour, 12+ min ago  (144+ words) The Irish News New owners for historic Belfast bar Arson attack at property linked to Co Tyrone competition business targeted in National Crime Agency operation One of Northern Ireland's most heavily fortified police stations to be sold off Northern Ireland…...

2+ hour, 29+ min ago  (698+ words) The sister of a young soldier killed 40 years ago by the Provisional IRA has described forgiveness as a road she will "never walk. Elizabeth Woods's brother, UDR Private Robert Hill, was 22 when he was he was targeted with an under…...