Anja Popp , Reporter

Given the gloom over rocketing fuel bills and rising inflation, it can be no surprise that families are tightening their belts. Now it’s starting to hit the economy – which shrank 0.1% in March. The cabinet met in Stoke-on-Trent today, with the prime minister and chancellor apparently warming to the idea of a windfall tax…

Around 60 people are now feared dead after a Russian bomb hit a school in eastern Ukraine. 

Ukrainian forces say they’ve captured five villages on the outskirts of the country’s second city Kharkiv as part of a counter-offensive aimed at driving Russian forces out of the region.

The mother of Baby P, who died after months of abuse, could walk free from prison within weeks – after the Parole Board rejected a government challenge to keep her behind bars.

Government ministers have said that the MP who allegedly watched pornography on his phone in the main chamber of the Commons should be kicked out of parliament and out of the Conservative Party. 

A video compiled by the family of a 19-year-old who was found dead in undergrowth near the Dorset coast has described her as “a force of nature”.

The full inquest has opened into the death of 19-year-old Gaia Pope-Sutherland, who was found dead near Swanage in Dorset in 2017, more than a week after she went missing.

There are reports of more fines being issued to Downing Street staff over lockdown parties, but No 10 says Boris Johnson hasn’t been handed one.

The warning signs of child neglect and physical abuse were all there and the authorities had seen them.

Shortly before the prime minister’s Partygate statement – it was the Home Secretary, Priti Patel who took the floor to explain the government’s plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.

A Tory MP has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.

Satellite images have picked up what is thought to be an eight-mile long Russian military convoy moving towards Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine. 

Conservative MP Jamie Wallis has become the first member of the UK’s parliament to come out as transgender.

Over two million people have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion – and there are fears that number could double over the next few days. 

Home Secretary Priti Patel is facing a backlash, including from MPs on her own side, for the UK’s response to the refugee crisis brought about by the war in Ukraine – with under a thousand visas given to Ukrainians so far.