A British teenager on Monday pleaded guilty to charges of murdering three young girls in a knife attack in northern England in July, a crime that horrified the nation and was followed by days of nationwide rioting.

A family-friendly jazz festival returns to Merseyside this weekend and will be located in a 'stunning' art-deco inspired building. The Southport Jazz Festival is hosted by The Grand on Lord Street and be in full flow from Friday, January 31 to Sunday, February 2.

Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, died following the attack at the Taylor Swift-themed class.

The daughter of murdered MP Sir David Amess has said multiple state failures linked his death to the Southport murders, with the killers having "the same kind of profile". Sir David, 69, died after being stabbed 21 times by terrorist Ali Harbi Ali at a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea on 15 October 2021.

Southport attacker Axel Rudakubana’s 52-year prison sentence is set to be reviewed amid concerns it is “unduly lenient.”

A protester interrupted a Sky News report this afternoon, outside Liverpool Crown Court. The news channel was reporting on the sentencing of Southport killer Axel Rudakubana when a man with a sign cut in, interrupting presenting from Sarah-Jane Mee.

A violence-obsessed teenager who murdered three girls at a dance class in Southport tried to take a taxi to his former school a week before his rampage - but was stopped by his father. Axel Rudakubana, 18, was reportedly excluded from secondary school over allegations he was carrying a knife and later returned to attack someone with a hockey stick.

In 12 years as a journalist, I’ve never sat through such a harrowing court hearing. It was impossible not to be moved to tears hearing the horrific injuries suffered by children as young as six

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Unconfirmed reports are swirling on social media that Southport killer Axel Rudakubana has been beaten up by inmates.

The defendant admitted their murders at Liverpool Crown Court on Monday ... “It is essential that the families and the people of Southport can get answers about how this terrible attack could ...

Elsie Dot Stancombe, Bebe King, Alice da Silva Aguiar. Why don’t we know their names? Within days of the murder of James Bulger on Merseyside in 1993, that two-year-old boy was the most famous person in the country.