The chair of an inquiry looking into allegations about UK special forces in Afghanistan has criticised the Ministry of Defence for delays in providing evidence.

The Metropolitan Police arrested 45 demonstrators who tried to block coaches taking illegal immigrants from a hotel in Peckham to the Bibby Stockholm barge.

Marcus Arduini Monzo, 36, a dual Spanish-Brazilian national, has appeared in court charged with the murder of 14-year-old Daniel Anjorin in east London.

A coroner has referred several soldiers to Northern Ireland’s prosecutor following an inquest into the killings of three IRA men in an SAS ambush in 1991.

A Metropolitan Police officer who kidnapped and raped a woman in September 2023—six years after a first complaint was made against him—has been jailed for life.

The business secretary said ‘British ingenuity and industry’ made the UK successful and played down the role of slavery and colonialism.

On Thursday voters go to the polls in England and Wales for elections for 107 councils, 11 mayors, 37 police and crime commissioners, and a by-election.

A 14-year-old boy has been killed and several other people were injured when a man ran amok with a samurai sword in Hainault, east London.

A government document suggests only 2,145 out of the 5,700 people identified for removal to Rwanda are still in contact with the Home Office.

A Tory MP and long-time critic of the Chinese Communist Party has claimed he was deported from Djibouti, an African country with close links to Beijing.