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The number of missing registered sex offenders may have increased in the past two years, according to data obtained by the BBC under freedom of information.

Police pay millions of taxpayers' money to mobile phone companies to get data for criminal investigations.

Nearly 140 children from foreign countries cared for by East of England councils have then gone missing.

Thousands of speeding foreign drivers escaped punishment because of a loophole in the law, a police force says.

Drug-taking levels among soldiers from Scottish battalions are the highest in the British Army.




A senior official advised ministers that a survey saying 655,000 Iraqis died due to the war was "robust".
Patient safety may be at risk due to serious delays in assessing misconduct complaints against nurses.

Nearly a third of aid money for the Scottish Executive's Malawi programme has gone on running costs.

Prison officials have not dealt with corrupt prison staff despite being warned in May last year.

The police managed to "paper over the evidential gaps" in trials of Greenham Common protesters in the 1980s.

Millions of pounds of public money aimed at helping the most deprived areas of Wales is being sent back unused.

No-one has been thrown off the Tube for ignoring an alcohol ban, according to figures obtained by the BBC

Ambulance services hold records of over 8,500 homes with a history of violence against staff.

Stretched resources and the radicalisation of minorities are two "key threats" to policing in Kent, a police report says.

The United States abandoned a nuclear weapon beneath the ice in northern Greenland following a crash in 1968.

There were at least 116 escapes from medium and low secure psychiatric hospitals in 2007.

Several patients have been incorrectly diagnosed as being dead in hospitals over the past five years.

Personal data has been lost or wrongly revealed by 13 London councils in the last year, a BBC survey finds.

A BBC investigation reveals a huge rise in suspensions of teachers over the past four years.

Black and minority ethnic police officers are more likely to be subject to internal investigations.

The Association of Chief Police Officers says it wants football clubs to pay the full cost of policing games.

Police appeal for information as the latest of more than 130 prisoners to abscond from an open jail.

A shake-up of strategic health authorities has seen the NHS pay out more than £80m in redundancy.

Forty per-cent of £5bn promised to improve MoD housing will go on rent to a private landlord.

More than 2,400 homes rented by the MoD have been empty for over a year at a cost of millions.

MPs' taxpayer-funded spending on items such as food, cleaning, mortgages and TV licences is revealed.

Yorkshire's newest stretch of motorway does not meet up-to-date standards of construction.

A recent knife amnesty had no significant impact on reducing knife crime, according to a Police report.

A National Audit Office report into the huge NHS IT programme had criticisms watered-down or deleted.

The costs of police investigations connected to the TV show Big Brother are revealed.

The whereabouts of 34 sex offenders across the West Midlands are unknown, according to police figures.

The Scottish Government's commission to investigate the state of broadcasting is given a £500,000 budget.

More than 100 registered sex offenders are missing in London, BBC London reveals.

A police inquiry which ended with a judge clearing a Milton Keynes journalist cost £205,000.

Almost 3,000 crimes were committed last year by children too young to be prosecuted.

More than 150 separate cases of data being lost across Welsh NHS trusts left patients details at risk, it is revealed.

Scotland's local authorities have spent record amounts on external consultants, the BBC has learned.

The government considered a UK operation to arrest those suspected of killing six Red Caps in Iraq.

More than 1,000 children aged 12 to 17 have been arrested for drug dealing in London since 2004.

Patients' confidential medical records are regularly being accessed by people who have no right to them.

Thousands of teaching days are lost in Lincolnshire schools due to staff stress, figures reveal.

Almost a quarter of catering premises in Greater Manchester fail to meet food hygiene regulations.

Natural disasters caused partly by UK carbon emissions will hurt the same people given overseas aid.

Local authorities are 'highly unlikely' to meet targets on stable placings for children in care.

Thieves may be targeting Staffordshire Bull Terriers and using them to guard stolen property.

Councils across the East of England spend millions of pounds compensating people injured tripping on pavements.

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