Jane Deith

One city that’s been particularly worried about this rail strike is Birmingham, which is teeing up for the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games tomorrow.

The former Chancellor Rishi Sunak has claimed he’s the underdog in the Tory leadership race – saying that the “forces that be” are backing his rival Liz Truss. 

He faces the challenge of turning around a police force which has become mired in crisis – former counter terrorism chief Sir Mark Rowley is to become the new commissioner of the Metropolitan Police – less than two weeks after the force was put into special measures.

The Foreign Office has condemned what it describes as the exploitation of prisoners of war for political purposes after two British men, captured in April by pro-Russian forces, were charged with being mercenaries in Ukraine.

Russia has demanded that Lithuania lift its ban on the transit of sanctioned goods by road and rail to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad – threatening “serious and sensitive consequences” for the Lithuanian people if it doesn’t. 

Since two female Conservative MPs made an accusation that a colleague had watched porn on his phone in the House of Commons main chamber, there has been fevered speculation about his identity.

Home Secretary Priti Patel’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda doesn’t withstand ‘the judgement of God’, according to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Two Civil Service unions have voiced their opposition to the government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, one describing it as ‘inhumane’ and ‘heartless’.

Pakistan has a new prime minister – albeit a temporary one until the next election.

Civilians in Donetsk and Luhansk have been warned to get out while they still can – officials urging them “do not delay”. 

We have been following one woman’s escape from her home in the city. 

“Not fit for purpose.” That’s the damning indictment of Scotland Yard’s approach to tackling corruption within its ranks. 

A “shocking” and “deeply concerning case”. That’s the verdict of the Mayor of London after an incident in 2020 in which a 15-year-old black girl was strip searched at an East London school by two police officers. 

More than 500 international students in Ukraine have found themselves trapped inside a war zone in Ukraine’s North East.

The mayor of London has said the head of the Metropolitan Police, Dame Cressida Dick, has “days or weeks” to come up with reforms that will win back the public’s trust, after a series of revelations about unacceptable behaviour in the ranks.