Farage may have won the battle for Clacton, but he’s losing the country
Reform leader forced a by-election to try to escape a political crisis but may simply have postponed, and even intensified, the inevitable, writes Kate Devlin The by-election campaign in Clacton,…
Farage’s by-election victory won’t stop questions about finances
Nigel Farage did not turn up to savour his victory in the by-election he triggered himself. Overnight he told a rally of Reform UK supporters he had been advised there…
Nigel Farage wins Clacton byelection in contest boycotted by every other major party
Nigel Farage has seen off Count Binface to win the Clacton byelection in a contest boycotted by every other major political party. The Reform UK leader in July triggered the…
Searches for UK homes with air conditioning more than double
Searches for homes for sale in the UK with air conditioning have more than doubled this summer as heatwaves push staying cool up the list of priorities for homebuyers, alongside…
Hot topic: why is Burnham so reluctant to talk about the climate crisis?
From the first day Andy Burnham came into office, climate scientists, campaigners and some of the ordinary people surviving through this summer of extreme heat began to wonder when he…
Victims call for sex attackers to be excluded from early release plans
Scotland home affairs correspondentPublished6 hours agoA woman who was raped by a stranger has asked politicians to think of victims and abandon plans for the early release of hundreds of…
NHS service admits data breach due to pager use
The sensitive medical data of transplant patients from across the UK was routinely sent over an unencrypted pager network, an NHS service has admitted. A BBC investigation found NHS Blood…
Ice cream man hit with noise complaint over van’s music
An ice cream man has been hit with a noise complaint by someone who did not like the loud chimes from his van. Mark Edwards was contacted by the council…
England is officially in drought – how do we fix our water woes?
With the drought hitting millions and putting Southern Water weeks away from completely running dry, Helen Coffey looks at what we can do as individuals – and as a nation…
UK universities face ‘financial crisis’ amid collapse in international students
University leaders are warning of financial turmoil in British higher education after new figures suggested a collapse in international student numbers would deprive the sector of vital income and undermine…