Ashirie Smith was given a minimum of 17 and a half years for the ‘serious, sustained’ attack on Mahir Abdulrahman at HMP Fosse Way.

Schools and the NHS are “not over that hurdle” of unsafe concrete, a minister has said. Catherine McKinnell also said ministers cannot “fix everything overnight” when asked how much of the maintenance ...

Going ahead with welfare reforms will drive more people into homelessness, a number of major charities have warned the Government. Shelter and Crisis are among the signatories to a letter to the Work ...

A New Zealand flag printed with the words “please walk on me” and placed on the floor of an art gallery has once again been packed away following a public outcry, 30 years after protests forced the ...

Four billion people, about half the world’s population, experienced at least one extra month of extreme heat because of human-caused climate change from May 2024 to May 2025, scientists have said.

A rate-setter at the Bank of England has said he remains “pretty concerned” about the economic outlook as he renewed calls to reduce interest rates further.

Kemi Badenoch has accused the Labour and Reform leaders of asking people to “fund unlimited child support for others” by scrapping the two-child cap. Writing in the Daily Mail, the Tory leader accused ...

Cadent Gas, Scotland Gas Networks and Southern Gas Networks agreed to pay the funds after missing attendance time targets between 2022 and 2023.

A report from WWF and Aviva offers the first results from a network of towers measuring the carbon storage in coastal saltmarsh habitat.

Roy Barclay, 56, denies killing Anita Rose, 57, while she was out walking her dog near her home in Suffolk last July.