Two 15-year-old boys who were spared custody for the rape of two girls in Fordingbridge have been sentenced to four years’ detention after the Court of Appeal ruled their sentences were “unduly lenient”..

The forced adoption of babies from unmarried mothers in the decades after the Second World War has been branded a “stain on our history” by Sir Keir Starmer as he made a long-awaited state apology for the historical practice..

Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to boost defence spending by £15 billion is facing fresh scrutiny, after Downing Street was unable to say where exactly the cuts required to pay for it will come from..

Survivors of historical forced adoption are to get the state apology they have spent decades campaigning for when Sir Keir Starmer says sorry in Parliament..

Firefighters tackled a blaze involving a container on a forklift truck in East Sussex.

A dangerous sex attacker who raped a woman at knifepoint as she waited for an Uber in Brighton has been jailed.

A man who began sexually abusing a young girl in West Sussex when she was nine years old has been jailed.

Two men were arrested after a fight broke out in Brighton during an England football match