The Crown court backlog will take the 'best part of a decade' to improve under plans published today, ministers have admitted.
Justice minister Sarah Sackman said things would 'get worse before they get better', with the backlog rising from its current record level of 80,000 to hit 100,000 in a year's time.
As any man will testify, a blow to the nether regions is never a pleasant experience. But to compare that brief, if eye-watering, jolt of pain to the rigours of pregnancy and childbirth might seem a bit of a stretch.
Indeed, a tribunal has now ruled that telling colleagues that men being kicked in the privates is more painful than giving birth amounts to sex harassment.
One of Bali's biggest tourist hotspots is experiencing massive flash flooding following torrential rain.
Kuta, Legian and Seminyak, on Bali's south-west coast, have suffered constant rain since Saturday night, resulting in between 30 to 70 centimetres of floodwater.
Donald Trump's ambassador to France Charles Kushner has been banned from meeting government officials after he failed to show up to explain comments about a killed far-right activist.
Emmanuel Macron's government on Monday demanded that Kushner, whose son Jared is married to Trump's daughter Ivanka, attend a meeting with the foreign minister to explain criticisms made by the State Department on the rise of 'violent radical leftism' in France.
A California mom who murdered her three daughters because they 'loved their grandmother more than her' has been found suitable for parole.
Megan Hogg, 53, brutally killed her daughters, Antoinette, seven, Angelique, three, and Alexandra, two, in their Daly City home in March 1998, by taping their mouths and feet and smothering them to death.
Burglars stole £500,000 worth of designer goods during a series of 'smash and grab' raids on luxury London retailers, a court heard.
Ryan Brough, 32, Max Tyson, 25, Oliver Ndayizeye, 35, Sonny Stringer, 30, and Harry Johnson, 24, have been charged with conspiracy to burgle over a three-month period between November 2025 and January 2026.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor called a police officer guarding Buckingham Palace a 'lardy c**t' when he refused entry to a 'random party girl' who turned up unannounced to visit his private chambers.
The ex-Duke of York also branded the royal protection bodyguard a 'fat-a**e' and appeared to threaten him if he did not let her up to his bedroom.
An enraged and heavily intoxicated doctor who killed a young woman in a high-speed crash will serve at least eight-and-a-half years behind bars.
Perth obstetrician Rhys Henry Stone Bellinge, 46, pleaded guilty to unlawfully killing Elizabeth Pearce, 24, while driving his supercharged Jaguar in Perth's leafy riverside suburb of Dalkeith in February 2025.
Nigel Farage mocked Keir Starmer for failing to meet any ordinary voters today after the PM finally visited a crucial by-election battlefield.
The Reform leader hit out at the 'desperate' PM - weighed down by disastrous personal poll ratings - following his surprise trip to Gorton & Denton yesterday.
Donald Trump’s State of the Union address is the Super Bowl of the year for political prediction market traders, with millions of dollars at stake.
Over $4 million is being thrown around ahead of what the President is anticipated say during his anticipated congressional address on the regulated exchange and prediction market site Kalshi.
