Anja Popp , Reporter

It’s just days before the new academic year begins – but more than 100 schools across England are scrambling to find temporary new classrooms after potentially dangerous concrete was discovered. And, the Government has admitted more schools might be affected too, as engineers spend the weekend checking premises around the country. Unions are furious that…

The Education Secretary Gillian Keegan tonight defended her ‘cautious approach’, hours after causing consternation amongst teachers, parents and pupils in England a matter of days before the start of term. Labour and teaching unions rounded on the government, with the National Education Union describing the situation as “absolutely disgraceful”.

Another controversial anti pollution strategy – London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone – has just been expanded to the whole of Greater London – meaning drivers whose vehicles don’t meet minimum emission standards will have to pay a daily £12.50 fee. The city’s mayor Sadiq Khan said it would help five million people breathe cleaner air.…

The Home Secretary Suella Braverman has said police should investigate every theft – insisting they should follow all reasonable leads to catch offenders – as part of new guidelines issued to forces across England and Wales.

More than three million people in England who are in work and rent their own homes don’t have enough savings to pay their rent for a month, if they lose their job.

The Northern Ireland chief constable has admitted that information about thousands of police officers and staff which was mistakenly made public in a data breach is now in the hands of dissident republicans.

More than 12,000 jobs are at risk after the budget homewares chain Wilko collapsed into administration. 

11 people have died after a fire ripped through a property in eastern France which was being used as a holiday home for people with disabilities. 

There’s said to be little danger of an election being influenced after hackers targeted the Electoral Commission.

It’s been six months since two massive earthquakes tore through southeast Turkey and northern Syria, leaving fifty thousand people dead. Countless more were made homeless when entire towns and cities were turned to rubble.

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has urged his supporters to turn out on the streets in protest – after he was handed a three year jail sentence over corruption allegations. Police arrested Mr Khan at his home this morning, taking him to a prison near the capital Islamabad. He’s strongly denied the charges –…

Jacob Billington was 23 years old when he was killed by paranoid schizophrenic Zephaniah McLeod – who also stabbed seven other people.

Police say a pioneering approach to investigating rapes and other serious sexual crimes – dubbed Operation Soteria – is being rolled out in forces across the country. It’s a system in dire need of change – between April and December last year around 50,000 rapes were recorded by police in England and Wales. Yet just…

A man who fired a submachine gun into a group of people outside a Merseyside pub on Christmas Eve has been found guilty of murder. 

One of the men who’ve accused Kevin Spacey of sexual assault has told a court in London the actor was a “predator” – claiming it was well known that the Hollywood star was “up to no good”.