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Home Secretary Pledges Asylum System Overhaul
The Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has said a proposed tightening of asylum rules will help stop illegal immigration from 'tearing the country apart...
Donald Trump Says He Will Press Ahead With Legal Action Against BBC
Donald Trump has said he will speak to Sir Keir Starmer this weekend about his plans to sue the BBC for the way it edited footage of one of his speech...
Chancellor won't raise tax rates in the Budget after all
The Chancellor Rachel Reeves has decided against raising income tax in the Budget — following speculation that she might break a key Labour manifesto...
An independent review of the Sara Sharif case has identified multiple failings
It's been revealed that a day before Sara Sharif was murdered by her father and stepmother, council workers tried to check on her, but went to the wro...
New emails allege Donald Trump spent hours with a victim of Jeffrey Epstein
Democrats in the US have released emails which, they say, raise new questions about Donald Trump's relationship with the convicted sex offender Jeffre...
The Justice Secretary reveals 91 prisoners have been freed in error since April
The Justice Secretary, David Lammy, has revealed that 91 prisoners have been released by mistake over the last seven months. Also: Epping Council lose...
BBC Chairman apologises for the way Panorama edited a Donald Trump speech
The chairman of the BBC, Samir Shah, has apologised for what he called an "error of judgement" over the way a speech by President Trump on the day of...
BBC Director General Tim Davie resigns
The BBC's director general, Tim Davie and the CEO of BBC News Deborah Turness have resigned, after a leaked memo raised concerns about bias at the bro...
Immigration, Danish-style
The Home Secretary is set to announce a major shake-up of the immigration and asylum system later this month, reportedly inspired by Denmark's approac...
The second man accidentally freed from Wandsworth prison is arrested
An Algerian sex offender, who was mistakenly released from Wandsworth prison in South London at the end of last month, has been arrested. Also: The wo...
One of two men accidentally released from Wandsworth prison hands himself in
The Justice Secretary, David Lammy, has insisted that prison systems are being modernised to try to deal with what he called an unacceptable spike in...
Police are searching for two men mistakenly released from prison in London last week
Two prisoners have been released by mistake from Wandsworth prison in London in the space of a week, including an Algerian national who is a convicted...
The Chancellor hints that taxes will go up for millions
The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has warned voters that she will need to make what she described as "necessary choices" to balance the books, in the Bud...
Police investigate whether train stabbings suspect is linked to three other incidents
Police are investigating whether the man charged with stabbing people on a train on Saturday is linked to three other knife incidents. Anthony William...
A 32-year-old man is questioned over train stabbings
Police investigating a stabbing attack on a train last night say they are now treating a 32-year-old man as their only suspect. A second man, aged 35,...
Pressure grows on Andrew to testify to US inquiry into Epstein
Pressure is growing on the former prince, Andrew, to agree to face questions in the US about his links to Jeffrey Epstein. Months of criticism over hi...
31/10/2025
The government has said it has no plans to introduce a law to change the line of succession, after the King stripped his brother of all his titles and...
Letting agent apologises for not applying for rental licence on behalf of Rachel Reeves
Rachel Reeves's letting agent has apologised for not applying for a special licence on her behalf, when renting out her home in south London. Also: Th...
Allegations of killings and abductions in western Sudan
The World Health Organization has said it is "appalled" at reports that more than 460 civilians have been killed at a hospital in El-Fasher in western...
Israel carries out "powerful strikes" on Gaza
Israel says it has carried out intense strikes on Gaza, after claiming a coffin handed over by Hamas did not contain the body of another deceased host...
Nigel Farage rejects accusation that Reform MP is "racist"
The Reform leader, Nigel Farage, has rejected an accusation from the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, that the MP Sarah Pochin was racist, after she...
Migrant Sex Offender Caught After Wrongful Jail Release
A migrant sex offender who was wrongly released from prison and spent two days at large in Essex and London is now back behind bars. Hadush Kebatu - w...
The MP Lucy Powell has been elected as Labour's deputy leader
Lucy Powell has won the election to become Labour's deputy leader, after campaigning for the party to change course. She won 54% of the 161,000 votes...
The asylum seeker who was jailed for a sexual assault in Epping has been released by mistake
It's been confirmed that an asylum seeker who was jailed last month for a year for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman in Epping has be...
A former paratrooper is cleared of murder on Bloody Sunday
A British Army veteran, known only as Soldier F, has been cleared of murdering two people in Londonderry on Bloody Sunday in 1972. Also: Three metropo...
A second candidate to chair the grooming gang inquiry has withdrawn
The government's beleaguered inquiry into grooming gangs has run into further difficulty with the final significant candidate to chair it ruling himse...
Senior politicians add to the mounting scrutiny of Prince Andrew
Senior politicians have added to the mounting scrutiny of Prince Andrew, as the discussion around his connection to the late sex offender, Jeffrey Eps...
Calls grow for Prince Andrew to be permanently stripped of his royal titles
Buckingham Palace has urged people to focus on the King's royal work and not be distracted by the scandal surrounding his brother Prince Andrew becaus...
Thieves steal eight priceless objects from the Louvre Museum
French police are searching for a gang who stole priceless treasures from the Louvre in Paris this morning .Officers found a damaged nineteenth centur...
Prince Andrew drops his royal titles
The family of Virginia Giuffre - who accused Prince Andrew of sexual abusing her when she was a teenager - have welcomed the announcement that he is t...
Political pressure about the banning of Israeli football fans from a match against Aston Villa
Ministers have spent the day in discussions about how to reverse a decision to ban supporters of the Israeli football team, Maccabi Tel Aviv, from att...
Frustration from the head of MI5 over the collapse of the China spying case
The head of MI5 has said Chinese state operatives present a daily national security threat to the UK and expressed frustration about the collapse of a...
The blame game over the collapse of the China spying trial boils over in the Commons
Sir Keir Starmer has said the government will publish key evidence at the centre of a row about the collapse of a case involving two men accused of sp...
People coming to the UK to work are to face tougher English language rules
People coming to the UK to work are to face tougher English language rules, requiring them to meet an A-Level standard in speaking, listening, reading...
The last living hostages held by Hamas are reunited with their families in Israel
There have been celebrations across Israel and the Palestinian territories, as a major hostage and prisoner exchange marked a significant step towards...
More aid enters Gaza ahead of hostage release
More aid is entering Gaza, as humanitarian agencies scale up their response to the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and final preparations are made...
Paedophile singer Ian Watkins dies after prison attack
The former Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins has died after being attacked in prison – where he was serving a lengthy sentence for child sex offences. O...
Palestinians return to Gaza
Thousands of displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza have begun to return home, after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into effect. Israel sa...
Global Reaction to Gaza Peace Deal
Leaders around the world have welcomed the ceasefire agreement. News of the deal was greeted with huge outbursts of joy in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv...
The Conservative leader has delivered her first party conference speech
In her first leader's speech to a Conservative party conference, Kemi Badenoch committed a future Tory administration to lower government spending, to...