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US supercop Bill Bratton: UK gangs 'can be stopped'

12.10.11
Britain's gang problem is in its 'gestation' period and can be stopped before it takes a 'multi-generational hold', according to US supercop Bill Bratton... more

Briton dies in New York helicopter crash

05.10.11
A British tourist who died when a helicopter crashed into New York's East River has been named as Sonia Marra Nicholson... more

Gangs on the run: what can we learn from the US about how to tackle crime?

16.08.11
Feature: As debate rages about how to combat gang culture in the UK, Philip Delves Broughton looks at how US cities tackled the problem... more

'Supercop' Bill Bratton hits out at critics

15.08.11
Former US police chief Bill Bratton hits out at critics opposing the Government's consultation of foreign experts to improve British policing following violent rioting across England... more

Gangs and the future for London's police

15.08.11
The row over the role of former US police chief Bill Bratton is driven by the political urgency of finding solutions to the riots... more

Uma Thurman's stalker arrested

01.12.10
Uma Thurman’s stalker has been arrested for allegedly violating a restraining order against the actress... more

Uma Thurman's stalker breaks probation

03.11.10
Uma Thurman's stalker has violated his probation order which forbids him from contacting her... more

Life after The Wire in Brooklyn's Finest

11.06.10
Fans of the crack ’n’ cop TV series will relish the intertwining stories of three officers as they patrol familiar mean streets.... more

Cry for marriage help in Date Night

23.04.10
As a couple trying to spice up their marriage, comedy heavyweights Tina Fey and Steve Carell start well but they can’t keep up the clever wit once the script turns to madcap farce.... more

Jay-Z to play one off Roundhouse gig

01.09.09
Hip Hop star Jay-Z is to play a one-off ‘intimate’ solo concert in London.... more

After four years our son couldn’t fight cancer any more

29.07.09
Seven-year-old Jack Brown finally lost his battle with cancer in May. Here his grieving parents salute the boy who would not give in... more

Captain Cool: Darling, I've had an accident

16.01.09
The pilot who crash-landed his plane into the Hudson river called his wife and said: "There's been an accident."... more

Obama's new regime - it's too old school for my taste

03.12.08
There's a strange sense of political limbo here in America at the moment... more

Bent cops aren't arresting in Pride and Glory

06.11.08
Pride and Glory follows a family torn between loyalty to each other and the NYPD and upholding American justice.... more

Kiefer reflects on something sinister in Mirrors

09.10.08
Mirrors is a remake of a weird South Korean horror film starring Kiefer Sutherland - but just isn't as scary as the original version.... more

The believer

29.09.08
London-born novelist Zoë Heller’s latest novel The Believers is set to be another hit. Here she tells Liz Hoggard how she overcame grief and insecurity to become a woman who really has it all... more

Criminal waste in Righteous Kill

25.09.08
Any movie with Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in the lead ought to be a good deal better than Jon Avnet’s police thriller.... more

Ray Winstone dons 70s moustache for new U.S. police drama

23.08.08
No, it's not Ray Winstone at a 70s themed party. It's the British actor on the set of his latest role where he plays a tough-talking New York police officer.... more

Action man Sarkozy sweats it up on a cycling and beach holiday

03.08.08
He has been nicknamed 'President Bling Bling', but Nicolas Sarkozy left his usual flashy style at home today as he worked up a sweat on the beach.... more

Cable Guy is man on wire

31.07.08
Man On Wire is the story of Philippe Petit, who walked a high wire between New York’s fated Twin Towers, then the world’s tallest buildings.... more

Batman and the immorality of using a dead man to hype a movie

18.07.08
For better or worse, the new Batman film, The Dark Knight, is being marketed almost entirely on the strength of the performance of the late Heath Ledger.... more

Johnson wants crime map for every street

09.04.08
A New York-style scheme to allow Londoners to monitor crime in their street could be launched on the internet, mayoral candidate Boris Johnson pledged... more

DVDs of the week

30.10.07
Bruce Willis is brill in Die Hard 4.0, Oasis are really dreary, and French comedy Poltergay is camper than a poodle on roller skates.... more

Die Hard: with a bus pass

21.06.07
Twelve years after he last kicked terrorist butt in a grimy singlet, Bruce Willis's everyman hero John McClane is back: older, balder and grimmer. ... more


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