Firms that provide care for children on behalf of councils face a profit cap if they do not curb their gains, Bridget Phillipson said.

An 81-year-old man has been charged with murder after a woman died following serious injuries in south-east London. Brian James, of Dunwich Road, Bexleyheath, is due to appear at the Old Bailey on ...

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said Russia was ‘condemning black Africans to further killing, further rape, further starvation in a brutal ...

A damaged Maltese ship carrying potentially explosive fertiliser has returned to Norfolk, sparking criticism of Transport Secretary Louise Haigh. MV Ruby arrived at Great Yarmouth’s harbour on Monday, ...

Donna Stevens, chief executive of the Girls’ Schools Association, has called Labour’s private school policy a ‘step backwards for equality’.

The work will accelerate the development of hypersonic vehicles which travel faster than the speed of sound, John Healey said.

Conservative MP Sir Bernard Jenkin asked defence minister Al Carns why documents about the 1982 attack on the Sir Galahad were being withheld.

Mr Swann told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry that he believed it would have been ‘unethical and unnecessary’ to deploy the orders based on age ...

Officers have been patrolling antisocial behaviour (ASB) 'hotspot locations' in north Oxfordshire. This morning (November 18), PCSOs Drury and Pearce from the Bicester team were joined in their ...

Stormont’s former health minister Robin Swann has admitted that decisions he made during the Covid pandemic continue to “weigh heavily” upon him. Mr Swann also told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry that he did ...

A blind photographer who captured artists with disabilities that paint using their mouths or feet has said he hopes to challenge “stereotypical views of disability”. Ian Treherne, 46, known as The ...

Data from the Office for National Statistics shows 316,000 new businesses were created in 2023, down from 337,000 the year before.