Jane Deith

Since time immemorial, grandparents, aunts, uncles and older siblings have stepped in to bring up children whose parents aren’t able to look after them. It’s known as ‘kinship care’, and keeps thousands from entering the care system. 

An entire generation of children in England could be damaged by the impact of the covid pandemic, without more effective government intervention, MPs have warned. 

His television journey has gone from the daytime sofa to the confessional couch. 

More details have emerged about the deaths of two young people in the sea off Bournemouth beach.

Now, fresh from their victory at the Euros which captured the national imagination, the England lionesses are hoping to do it all again at this summer’s world cup. 

A man has been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and dangerous driving after a car collided with the gates of Downing Street this afternoon. 

The first minister of Wales Mark Drakeford, has said the police have questions to answer about the riot which broke out in the Cardiff suburb of Ely on Monday. 

Half a million people have been evacuated as a powerful cyclone slammed into Myanmar and Bangladesh, with torrential rain and winds of up to 120 miles an hour. Cyclone Mocha, which formed in the Bay of Bengal, has caused landslides and brought down trees, with several people killed. As the storm made landfall in Rakhine…

There have been more violent clashes in Pakistan between supporters of Imran Khan and the security forces. 

People across the UK have been invited to join a volunteering drive as part of the Coronation weekend – described as the Big Help Out. 

A 13-year-old boy has been arrested after eight children and a school guard were shot dead in the Serbian capital, Belgrade.

Nurses will have to cut short a planned 48 hour strike in England over the Bank holiday weekend after a court ruled that the second day of action was unlawful. The Royal College of Nursing described it as the “darkest day” of the dispute so far – criticising the government for “taking its own nurses…

There has been more evidence of the cost-of-living crisis worsening with the UK’s leading foodbank charity saying that a record number of emergency food parcels – nearly three million – were given out in the year to March. 

The Kenyan President William Ruto has compared a Christian cult suspected of telling followers to starve themselves to death, to terrorism. Police in Eastern Kenya have already discovered the bodies of more than fifty people. 

The biggest and most powerful rocket ever built – that was the boast from SpaceX, the company owned by Elon Musk, a man who has never knowingly undersold himself.