Red and white paint is daubed over a statue of the pioneer of Sunday Schools in Gloucester Park.

Police investigate after homes, a van, a business and a bus stop have Nazi symbols painted on them.

Four animal rights activists are guilty of a blackmail campaign against firms that supplied Huntingdon Life Sciences.

A group of animal rights activists waged a six-year blackmail campaign with the aim of shutting down Huntingdon Life Sciences.

A Leeds ginnel frequented by drug users is closed off after a campaign by residents.

The graves of 500 French Muslim war veterans are vandalised in an attack condemned by President Sarkozy.

Tensions at a disputed house in Hebron approached boiling point as Israeli settlers prepared to battle a court-ordered eviction from the so-called "house of peace" in the West Bank city.

A memorial to two Protestant men murdered by the IRA in east Belfast in 1970 has been attacked by vandals.

Primary school children appeal for teenagers to stop vandalising their Herefordshire school.

A vandal who daubed more than 70 cars with paint after getting drunk in Carlisle has been jailed for 17 months.

Police and civic leaders condemn a "racially aggravated" vandal attack on an iconic Lake District monument.

Police community support officers may be granted extra powers, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith says.

A former Tory candidate who admitted carrying out a campaign of harassment gets a suspended sentence.

In the current credit crunch some home-owners are resorting to ever more desperate measures to sell their property. Here are five unusual approaches being tried by desperate sellers.

Posters and banners stuck to road signs are putting drivers' lives in danger, claims a council.

Sports Minister Gregory Campbell condemns an arson attack which destroyed a GAA clubhouse in County Down.

The home of a DUP councillor in south Armagh is badly damaged in an arson attack, which police are treating as sectarian.

Loyalist paramilitary Michael Stone claims his attack on Stormont in 2006 was simply "an act of performance art".

Restrictions on parties in prisons are announced after a newspaper publishes photos of a party with a "horror" theme at Holloway jail.

New homes in England are being built smaller than almost anywhere else in Europe, a new exhibition reveals. Are the gleaming new apartment buildings of the past decade the inner-city slums of tomorrow?