Owen Paterson breached rule prohibiting paid advocacy for private firms, watchdog finds

Four activists have used ropes and harnesses to scale the building and have brought supplies up with them to stay ‘indefinitely’

Jamar Bailey has been sentenced to 25-and-a-half years in prison

Former US counterterrorism official warns ‘whole world is at more risk’ until UK takes responsibility for nationals

Health chief’s warning comes as minister says Tory MPs are sending message about ‘using your own initiative’

Treasury announces increase ahead of chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Autumn Budget

Minister says resettlement will ‘take time’ but MPs call for more urgency to ‘save lives’

Pay rise ‘could be anything’, says business minister as chancellor announces freeze will be lifted

Chancellor says economic recovery will allow him to help teachers and nurses

Victim says James Geoghegan fell asleep afterwards and she cried

Covid certification could be ‘counterintuitive and potentially counterproductive’, impact assessment warns

Cheltenham in Gloucestershire has the highest case rate in the UK

France considers restrictions on fishing as contrary to post-Brexit agreement

Supporters of whistleblower publisher urge Joe Biden to drop case started by Donald Trump

The Met Police will issue an apology to the family of Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry for the way it responded when the sisters were reported missing in Wembley last year.

Andrew and accuser Virginia Giuffre expected to answer questions under oath

International development committee says hard to take UK government seriously on climate change

Australia's prime minister says his country will commit to a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 but will not increase its goal for 2030 at an upcoming U.N. climate summit in Scotland

Perpetrators ‘deliberately pick vulnerable people’ who may not know what they are doing is wrong

Almost a quarter of women veterans surveyed said they had been sexually harassed

‘It’s right that nurses, teachers and all the other public sector workers who played their part during the pandemic see their wages rise’

Isabelle Potterton tells court she thought parents’ row shortly before stabbing was ‘just another bicker’

‘We shouldn’t be going home early just because we don’t feel safe,’ says Jebina Yasmin Islam

‘This will hurt many household budgets,’ says RAC

‘I’ve had so many messages from trolls saying: ‘If you don’t want to get spiked, just stay in’. If we do that and stay in, we are giving them exactly what they want,’ says campaigner

Rich nations will not reach long-promised target of $100bn a year for developing countries until 2023 – three years late

It was suggested that someone in MI5 should have joined the dots

West Midlands Police said they were aware of the video but had not been called to the incident

‘MPs must vote to make it a legal obligation for water companies to end sewage pollution’

Lord Frost says European Court of Justice cannot be kept in ‘by some other name’

But increase could be eaten up by national insurance hike and universal credit cut

The military coup in Sudan threatens to wreck the country’s fragile transition to democracy, more than two years after a popular uprising forced the removal of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir

‘At one time ministers did the right thing if they briefed before a Budget: they walked’

Cases will drop ‘some time’ in the coming weeks

‘We might not get the agreements that we need,’ PM concedes

Kerry Miles received a suspended sentence of 16 weeks in prison

Fiscal prudence could prove politically expensive if there’s nothing to support struggling businesses and families, writes Anna Isaac

The government promised an interest-free alternative to student loans in 2013 but little progress has been made

He was convicted for breaching his criminal behaviour order

Money is crucial to winning trust of developing countries in Glasgow next week – but won’t be delivered until 2023

Chancellor Rishi Sunak expected to try to rebalance books after massive borrowing to pay for pandemic, with jobs plan, minimum wage, council tax and student loans in the spotlight

The Prime Minister said it was ‘very, very far from clear’ that the Cop26 summit would deliver the progress needed on climate change

PM also claims recycling ‘doesn’t work’ during unscripted panel conversation

Scottish first minister demands ‘significant uplift’ from world’s biggest emitting countries

E A Koetting follows a form of satanism called Left-Hand Path

‘These people are doing so much damage,’ health secretary says

Detectives are calling for any potential witnesses to come forward