Amelia Jenne

Humza Yousef began his first big speech in office this afternoon by admitting, perhaps by way of understatement, that being First Minister “has its challenges”.

Rishi Sunak defended his plan to make all students in England study maths until the age of 18 – although he admitted that more teachers would need to be recruited.

The head of the CBI, one of Britain’s largest business groups, says he is shocked at being sacked over claims about his behaviour towards staff members at work.

ir Mark Rowley has announced dozens of officers from its serious crime and terrorism units will focus their firepower internally.

The man who killed nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel has been jailed for life, with a minimum of 42 years. 

The trial revealed not just a child’s life stolen by a violent criminal – but the communities terrified by gangs and the witnesses petrified to come forward.

President Biden has issued an emergency declaration for Mississippi, making federal funding available to the areas hardest hit when a tornado swept through on Friday night. At least 26 people were killed and dozens injured on the storm’s hour-long path through the state.

At least twenty-three people were killed and dozens more injured when a devastating tornado hit the US state of Mississippi overnight. Emergency services were left to appeal on Twitter for help with the search and rescue effort after the town of Rolling Fork was destroyed by a direct hit – the verdict of the mayor…

Campaigners have managed to save 19 trees in Plymouth city centre from being given the chop – amid outrage over the city council’s decision to cut down more than a hundred trees last week.

At the start of Debt Awareness Week, charities are warning that more and more vulnerable people are being mis-sold repayment plans called IVAs that end up driving them into even more debt. 

The energy giant Centrica, which owns British Gas, tripled its profits last year to more than £3 billion – despite the squeeze on consumers hit by soaring bills – with some vulnerable households forced onto prepayment metres.

In case you hadn’t noticed, more and more people are vaping; nearly four-and-a-half million in fact, across England, Scotland and Wales. That’s a five-fold increase in the last decade. 

Many economic experts predicted that the UK would dip into recession in the second half of last year. 

A former supermarket worker who climbed into Windsor Castle with a loaded crossbow and said he was “here to kill the Queen”, has pleaded guilty to an offence under the Treason Act.

The Bank of England may have sounded a little less gloomy about the economy today – predicting that the recession will end sooner than it previously thought and that the rate of inflation will fall rapidly later this year. But, it still put its base interest rate up again – this time to 4 per…