With London struggling to control its coronavirus crisis - the worst hit area in the capital - and indeed in Britain - is Barking and Dagenham.

Some shops in Northern Ireland have had to stop selling some goods because they can't get hold of them - thanks to the post Brexit rules surrounding trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

More than 3 million people in the UK have now had Covid - a grim total that's soared by a million in the last three weeks alone.

The Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove has warned that there will be "significant additional disruption" at the country's borders in the next few weeks.  

The revived Clap for Heroes is the new version of the Clap for Carers, which provided a rallying point for the country during the pandemic’s first wave last Spring. It’s now been re-designed to celebrate the contribution of all key worker...

A week after Brexit, is the next development of Frankenstein food heading for our tables? That’s what environmental campaigners are claiming, as the government launched a consultation on gene editing of crops and livestock. Until now the practi...

With temperatures tonight set to plunge well below freezing, the Westminster government is coming under increasing pressure to help rough sleepers who once again face being back on the streets. During the first lockdown, the groundbreaking scheme ...

Boris Johnson has pledged the full force of the Army and its “battle preparation techniques” to ramp up the rollout of the Covid vaccine, as frustrated GPs said they simply had not been given enough supplies. For exhausted hospital staff,...

More black, more female and employing more disabled people. That's what Lenny Henry says broadcasters must become or they risk viewers switching off.

Many families will be desperate for any help now, as parents and children are having to share devices

In Wales, more than a third of hospital beds are now occupied by patients with coronavirus

One MP who made an impassioned speech in the Commons earlier about the dangers of a lockdown was Conservative Sir Charles Walker. 

MPs have backed the latest lockdown measures for England.

We spoke to the minister for Covid vaccine deployment, Nadhim Zahawi

MPs have voted to approve England's new lockdown laws.