Darshna Soni , Communities Editor

The UK has some of the most “leaky” homes in Europe –  a combination of the age of our houses and flats, including some new builds too.

More than 150,000 people in the UK have expressed an interest in offering homes to people who have fled Ukraine – but critics say the government’s scheme will be unworkable unless it scraps a lot of the excessive red tape. 

“Big cities in Poland are overcrowded and we will soon no longer be able to accommodate them”, is the warning from the mayors of the country’s two largest cities about the pressure being put on them by the numbers of refugees arriving.

The United Nations has said the number of people fleeing Ukraine has topped three million, and that child refugees are leaving at a rate of nearly one every second. 

There have been a host of complaints accusing media outlets of a Euro-centric racial bias, and making poor comparisons between this war and those in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

Tens of thousands of children in England are persistently absent from schools, according to a new report from the Children’s Commissioner, including some who haven’t returned after the pandemic lockdowns. 

The conflict in Ukraine is not just being fought on the ground, but in cyberspace too

The Environment Agency is urging communities in parts of the West Midlands and Yorkshire to be prepared for significant flooding following high rainfall from storm Franklin.

With England’s restrictions now about to be scrapped altogether -we’ve been back to speak to some of the people in Bradford who we’ve followed throughout the pandemic. 

How do you respond when your teacher constantly pronounces your name wrong or assumes that, because you wear a headscarf, you won’t want to join in certain activities? Jaspreet Kaur wants to shatter stereotypes for Asian girls growing up in Britain.

More than a dozen workers making products and components for Dyson are taking legal action against the company, alleging a string of labour abuses at a supplier in Malaysia, a Channel 4 News investigation can reveal. 

When the Taliban seized control of their homeland, thousands of Afghan evacuees, who once worked for the British, were promised sanctuary here in the UK. 

A recording has been made public of the final phone call British hostage taker Malik Faisal Akram made to his brother during the 10-hour standoff at a Texas synagogue.

The FBI is working with UK counter terror police after a British man flew to the US, bought a gun and held several people hostage in a synagogue.

As if to illustrate the quarrels within the Conservative Party, activists in one of the country’s safest Tory seats have voted unanimously to call on Boris Johnson to resign.