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Jordan Douherty was fatally stabbed on Saturday night when dozens of gatecrashers turned up at a birthday party in Romford, east London, advertised online

More than 100 politicians have been killed across Mexico ahead of general elections on 1 July. Mexicans will head to the polls this Sunday to elect a new president, senators and members of the Chamber of Deputies as well as more than 3,000 posts at regional and local levels. But the event has been marred with accusations of state corruption. The entire police force of the Mexican town of Ocampo was detained on suspicion of involvement in the murder of a...

The Government should write into law a positive definition of self-employment to provide clarity on who is and who is not genuinely self-employed, IPSE (the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed) has said. The call follows a decision in the employment tribunal today that a group of Hermes couriers were workers and not self-employed. GMB, the union for lifestyle couriers, scored a landmark legal victory against Hermes after an employment tribunal ruled their couriers are entitled to basic workers’ rights. The...

The Social Security Advisory Committee – the panel of experts responsible for scrutinising laws which affect the benefits system – have published the Government’s draft proposals for moving more than two million disabled people onto Universal Credit. The Government has said that this will take place between 2019 and 2023. It will affect around one million people with mental health problems who currently receive the disability benefit Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). Under these proposals people currently getting ESA will receive a letter informing...

The fire broke out in a block yesterday afternoon but did not spread to any other flats.

Oliver Storr, 22, asked the victim to send him a naked photograph of herself using Facebook messenger

Sharife Elwhabe stole 72,586.60 in hotel accommodation and cash, the prosecution claim, along with a further £10,000 in pre paid cards for victims of the blaze that killed 72.

Athirty4 also spraypainted UK as a ventriloquist dummy on Jean Claude-Juncker's lap

Hedge funds hired a network of pollsters to make millions off the pound’s collapse following the Brexit vote, a Bloomberg exclusive has revealed. Private polling in the city, which Nigel Farage was reportedly privy to, gave hedge funds a different view on the result of the referendum to the one presented to the public. They were able to use that mis-sentiment to buy derivatives and make lucrative trades. The Bloomberg scoop revealed that: Pollsters sold hedge funds critical, advance information, including...