Symeon Brown , News Correspondent

The health secretary has warned that the supply of Covid tests will be “constrained” for two weeks as people scramble to get hold of home testing kits and PCR appointments – although Wales has now promised to lend England 4 million kits to help meet demand. 

One of Hong Kong’s last remaining pro-democracy news sites has been shut down after police raided its offices and arrested senior staff members.

One of Hong Kong’s last remaining public monuments honouring the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre has been removed, after workmen dismantled a statue at Hong Kong University during the night. 

A devastating typhoon which struck the Philippines last week, is now known to have claimed at least 375 lives, according to authorities there.

A 27-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of child neglect, after four young children died in a house fire in south London.

The Metropolitan Police has announced that it is to speak to two people who attended a gathering on 14 December 2020 at Matthew Parker street, the road where Conservative Campaign Headquarters is located.

Dozens of people are still unaccounted for, as rescue teams work continuously in the aftermath of the devastating tornado which hit parts of the US Midwest and south. 

Thirty-seven years after police officer Yvonne Fletcher was shot dead outside the Libyan Embassy in London, one of her fellow officers has brought a civil case to the High Court in a bid to have someone held to account for the incident. 

The Environment Secretary has rejected suggestions that former minister Owen Paterson could be recommended for a peerage.

In the US, three white men have gone on trial today for the murder of the young Black man Ahmaud Arbery.

An MP who harassed a friend of her partner has been spared an immediate jail sentence.

A Metropolitan Police officer has been remanded in custody after he was charged with rape.

The fate of the Benin Bronzes, a historic collection of thousands of artefacts looted by British forces more than a hundred years ago, is being discussed by a high-level delegation at the British Museum in London where many are on display. 

Act now to control surging Covid cases or risk tougher measures later: that’s the message from the government’s scientific advisers. Boris Johnson says all measures are under review, but urged people to get their booster jab. This is as figures show England’s average daily hospital admissions for Covid patients are now at their highest for…

A 36 year old man has been arrested in East Sussex, on suspicion of the murder of London schoolteacher Sabina Nessa, in what police described as a “significant development”.