The SNP defended two Westminster seats vacated by politicians joining Holyrood this week.

A 30-year-old man from Norfolk, arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a boy ended up in a zoo's crocodile enclosure, has been released on bail after being declared not fit for interview.

Daveigh Chase, the voice of Lilo in Disney's animated film Lilo & Stitch, has died aged 35. 

A Liberal Democrat MP has had the party whip withdrawn after he was arrested.

The Scottish Conservatives have won the Aberdeen South by-election - taking the seat from the SNP.

Donald Trump has signed a deal aimed at ending the war with Iran.

Jamie Varley and John McGowan-Fazakerley have been jailed after the murder and sexual abuse of Preston Davey, their adopted baby.

An amber heat health alert has been issued for parts of England from this afternoon, the UK Health Security Agency has announced.

Baby serial killer Lucy Letby, Milly Dowler's murderer Levi Bellfield and triple murderer and rapist Kyle Clifford are among more than 70 inmates serving whole-life sentences in Britain.