Radio Essex

One Battle After Another and Sinners are two films set for big wins at the Oscars this weekend - but with the studio behind them potentially facing a huge takeover, industry experts say this is a time of great uncertainty in Hollywood.

The Oscars celebrate the craft and creative excellence behind the best movies of the year – but the red carpet ahead of the ceremony is quite a different matter.

Kneecap rapper Liam Og O hAnnaidh will not face a new terror trial after judges at the High Court rejected a Crown Prosecution Service appeal against the decision to throw out the case.

Thirty years after the Dunblane school massacre, Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander has said the tragedy "haunts many of us still to this day".

A mother who held a woman captive as a slave inside her "squalid" home for 25 years has been sentenced to 13 years.

A man has been charged with the murder of a court bailiff while he was at work.