Part of our Best Pubs in London microsite. Is your local listed? Next to, named after, and of a piece with Holborn Viaduct, this gorgeous corner pub is rightly famous. Its wedge-shaped profile is ...

The new £5 note featuring a portrait of 19th century social reformer Elizabeth Fry was being introduced into circulation today. The new note is in the same colours and size as the existing £5 ...

1789 saw the last recorded English burning at the stake of a woman - Catherine Murphy at Newgate Prison, London, convicted with her husband Hugh of counterfeiting money.

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USA was rocked by the case of Ed Gein who was arrested on November 1957 following the disappearance of store owner Bernice Worden whereupon her decapitated body was found strung up and gutted inside ...

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From around 200 AD, the shape of London was defined by one single structure; it’s massive city wall. From Tower Hill in the East to Blackfriars Station in the West, the wall stretched for two miles ...

New London — A Superior Court judge on Monday sentenced a New London man to 14 years in prison for his part in a brutal home invasion and assault in Norwich that the judge called one of the most ...

A female prison officer has been suspended from a London jail over claims of an inappropriate relationship with an inmate. Police are investigating claims that HMP Feltham prison officer Katerina ...

A female prison officer has been suspended from a London jail over claims of an inappropriate relationship with an inmate. Police are investigating claims that HMP Feltham prison officer Katerina ...

A judge in New London on Wednesday held a New London man in contempt of court and ordered a 90-day prison sentence as the result the man's prolonged outburst in the courtroom. New London Superior ...

Police are making enquiries to locate 54-year-old William Martin. Martin has been described as a "high-risk individual" who is wanted on recall to prison. He has links to central London, near ...