A COVID rescue plan to help children in England catch up on lost lessons, costing £1.4bn, is being unveiled by the government.

For 30 years the murder of successful businesswoman and mother Penny Bell has remained unsolved - her killer stabbing her more than 50 times in broad daylight before vanishing without a trace.

Boris Johnson is coming under pressure to delay lifting COVID restrictions on 21 June after several scientists urged him to - and Nicola Sturgeon paused lockdown easing in Scotland.

The daughter-in-law of Conservative grandee Lord Ashcroft has been taken from her police cell and transferred to a Belizean prison.

With large price hikes on the horizon, shoppers are being encouraged to splurge now while costs remain low.

Six people, including a 13-year-old boy, have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 14-year-old was chased and stabbed to death in Birmingham.

Joe Biden has become the first sitting US president to visit the site of the Tulsa massacre - 100 years since one of America's darkest episodes of racial violence.

Ambulance crews are to be given body-worn cameras after thousands of attacks against staff were reported last year.

A 20-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a flower seller was stabbed to death near his stand in north London, Scotland Yard said.

The future of some of the UK's most treasured species including puffins, bluebells and bumblebees is dependent on the outcome of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.