Andy Davies , Home Affairs Correspondent

There will be just two candidates vying to take over the leadership of Welsh Labour and succeed Mark Drakeford as the new First Minister of Wales.

Patients risk being stuck in hospital over Christmas unnecessarily because of the latest junior doctors strike. That’s the warning from a group of organisations including Age UK and the Patients Association, in a joint letter outlining their fears about the impact of the 72-hour action that began at 7 this morning. The Health Secretary has…

Wales’ first minister, Mark Drakeford, has announced he’s stepping down – triggering a contest for his successor.

Unions are due to meet steel bosses tomorrow as they try to avert thousands of job losses at the UK’s largest steelworks.

Residents living in a tower block in Bristol are evacuating their homes after the local council declared a major incident this afternoon over the safety of the building. 400 people – including 100 children – were told to leave the building in Redfield immediately and stay with family and friends, or at a temporary rest centre, causing confusion amongst residents.

Members of the Welsh Parliament have voted to pass a motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Middle East.

A police officer who blackmailed and threatened young girls to send him explicit pictures of themselves over Snapchat has been handed 13 life sentences.

Destitution – it’s a word almost from another age, conjuring visions of desperate, grinding poverty. But it is a fact of life right now , for increasing numbers of people, according to new research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation thinktank. In a joint study with Heriot-Watt University, they  found that 3.8 million people – a…

A bus driver and a 14-year-old schoolgirl have died in a motorway crash involving a school coach near Hooton in Cheshire. 

The revelation – first reported by Channel 4 News in February – that schools up and down the country contain concrete that’s liable to collapse has, in the last two weeks, become a major crisis. 

Two schools in North Wales have been closed over concerns about concrete.

When Chris Lewis set off on a fundraising walk in 2017, he couldn’t have imagined it would take him six years to complete – nor just how much it would change his life.

India’s Tata Group has chosen the UK as the location for its flagship battery plant to supply Jaguar Land Rover.

A barge critics have likened to a ‘quasi-prison’ has docked in the Dorset port where it will house 500 asylum seekers. 

In just over a week, voters will go to the polls in three separate by-elections across the country and they’re likely to be a significant test of public opinion.