Tory MP accuses French navy of firing shots in Channel incident
A Conservative MP has claimed a French warship fired warning shots near a boat he was on in the Channel in an attempt to stop him covering the small boats…
More rail services in England set to slow as heatwave shrinks soil
Persistent drought conditions caused by the climate crisis are expected to cause further disruption to trains across southern England, as the lack of rainfall affects the ground supporting railway embankments.…
Pharma giant GSK to relocate research headquarters to Cambridge in £400m move
GSK is hoping all workers will relocate to either Cambridge or Ware Pharmaceutical giant GSK has announced plans to close its main research and development hub in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, in…
Mum and boyfriend guilty of girl’s murder
A mother and her new boyfriend have been found guilty of murdering her two-year-old daughter, with the man also convicted of sexually abusing the girl. Isabelle Welsh suffered multiple injuries…
Mother and boyfriend found guilty of murdering her two-year-old daughter
Alexandra Walker and boyfriend Harrison Simpson convicted of the murder of Isabelle Welsh Alexandra Walker, 26, and her boyfriend Harrison Simpson, 22, have been convicted at Teesside Crown Court of…
Voices: Is Andy Burnham’s opening blitz of policies enough to keep Labour ahead of Reform?
With three polls now putting Labour ahead of Reform for the first time in over a year, has the new prime minister’s flurry of early policies genuinely reversed Labour’s fortunes,…
Burnham’s technical education plans will ‘hit the skids’ without schools funding, unions warn (cloned)
National Education Union (NEU) leader says asking schools to keep doing more with less is ‘not sustainable’ Plans to elevate technical and academic education to an equal standing, championed by…
Badenoch warns nimbys: Let prisons be built near your homes
‘If everybody says “no prison near me”, we won’t get these built’, Kemi Badenoch warned Kemi Badenoch has urged members of the public to support prison-building in their area amid…
French patrol boat heard firing shots during interview
A French patrol boat has fired gunshots in the English Channel as the BBC was conducting a media interview on a boat nearby. Chris Philp MP was being interviewed about…
Ex-boxing world champion Joe Cordina to stand trial after denying assault charges
Joe Cordina is a former two-time world champion and boxed for Team GB at the 2016 Olympics Former two-time boxing world champion Joe Cordina has denied assaulting another man. Cordina,…