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Retailers have warned that a ban on zero-hours contracts risks inflicting a "hammer blow to young people's job prospects" after the government's own analysis found the move could cost businesses billions of pounds a year.

A bus driver shot dead outside a south London pub has been named by police.

Six teenage boys have been arrested after a police officer was hit by a car while investigating a suspected burglary.

A semi-pro footballer filmed driving at 191mph on a motorway has been jailed, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has said. 

A rapist jailed for attacking a Dutch student in 2006 could be monitored for life after he was found guilty of two other attacks at around the same time.

A 102-year-old man is in a critical condition in hospital after allegedly being assaulted at a pub in South Wales.