Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe are starting life sentences for the brutal murder of transgender teenager Brianna Ghey, a year ago in a park near Warrington. They’ll spend a minimum of 22 and 20 years behind bars for what the Crown Prosecution Service said was “one of the most disturbing cases” its lawyers had ever…
An independent inquiry has found no evidence of corruption or illegal activities linked to the controversial Teesworks regeneration project.
Critics of the Government’s plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda say the country’s record on human rights shows it isn’t a safe place to send people.
The president of the European court of human rights has warned countries not to ignore its injunctions – saying there is a “clear, legal obligation” to follow them.
When the cost of everything is spiralling, from housing to fuel and food, millions of ordinary people are facing an ever greater struggle to get by. Now a new report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says millions of people in the UK would need to double their income to escape poverty. Their damning report reveals…
The European boss of Fujitsu has admitted the company “clearly let society down” as he apologised again to subpostmasters and postmistresses over its role in the Horizon scandal.
Last year Channel 4 News and the Bureau for Investigative journalism uncovered the appalling tactics used by debt firms to sign up desperate, vulnerable people to expensive repayment plans known as IVAs, which they had no hope of keeping up with and which in many instances drove them into more debt.
Care providers in England are warning they simply can’t afford to keep operating, and increasingly are handing back contracts to provide care as their financial struggles continue.
The Scottish National Party leader Humza Yousaf has said that supporting his party at the general election could ensure Scotland becomes a “Tory free zone”.
Energy companies will be allowed to forcibly fit pre-payment metres in customers homes – a year after the practice was put on hold.
Friends and colleagues have been paying tribute to the former lobbyist and Labour political adviser Derek Draper – who has died after suffering from long term complications from Covid.
The government has been accused of massaging the asylum numbers after claiming it’s cleared the backlog of asylum claims, built up before the end of June 2022.
Shops have reopened after a brief Christmas break, hoping sales will lure people back to the high street.
Officials from the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry say more than a hundred people have been killed during Israeli air strikes, in one of the deadliest nights of the eleven week old conflict between Israel and Hamas. Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu – who visited troops in Gaza today – warned that fighting would intensify. There…
Stormy weather and striking Eurotunnel staff are disrupting the Christmas getaway for tens of thousands of people.