A former detective has said he warned his superiors of a spate of violent attacks and rapes leading up to the murder of a young woman - that resulted in the wrong man spending 38 years in prison. The ...

Investigative podcast from BBC Radio Merseyside and BBC Audio Scotland looks at the brutal murder of a young girl and one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in modern British history ...

An eight-year-old boy has died after fire ripped through a house in the early hours of Sunday morning. The blaze broke out at the house on the Beechwood Estate in Birkenhead, Merseyside, yesterday.

On the morning of 23 September 1986, Peter Sullivan was arrested on suspicion of murder and taken into custody for questioning. Seven weeks earlier, Diane Sindall had been subjected to a frenzied ...

Diane Sindall, 21, had been saving up to get married before she was killed A team of cold case detectives trying to solve a murder that resulted in the wrong man spending 38 years in prison have ruled ...

Emergency services were called to the scene ...

A fire has broken out at a building in Birkenhead. Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service (MFRS) were called at alerted at around 2.55pm today of an incident on Columbia Road in Oxton, Birkenhead. On ...

Peter Sullivan was dubbed the “Beast of Birkenhead” after the murder of Diane Sindall sent shockwaves through a community. Mr Sullivan, who spent 38 years in prison, was jailed in 1987 for killing the ...