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Student was mistakenly shot dead while out buying groceries as petty business rivalry escalated into violence

Decision to be announced on Wednesday and appointments could begin within weeks

‘There’ll be no coalition going into those elections,’ says Labour leader

Prime minister says he wants to meet first minister as part of new ‘structured forum’ soon

Superintendent Novlett Robyn Williams successfully appealed against the decision to dismiss her and was reinstated as a police officer. However, the Metropolitan Police says the tribunal failed to make a proper assessment of the seriousness of the ma...

Ministers must learn quickly from past errors before winter Covid-19 disruption, unions warn

Ministers deliberately made it harder for areas beyond the red wall to get funds according to a new study

Researchers hope method could also be used on tables in restaurants, trains and planes

Ministers expected to resist calls for cheaper testing regime for travellers

Temperatures should be slightly warmer than normal in the second half of August but a second heatwave is dependent on the right conditions

‘If the lives of Black women and girls are important to these companies, they’ll take these poisonous products off the shelves’

Exclusive: Commitment to Green New Deal ‘as strong now as ever’, says Labour leader

Incident described as ‘truly heart-breaking’

Exclusive: Psychiatric report warns of ‘possibility of suicide’ for vulnerable torture victim stranded in Greece if Home Office does not reverse decision to reject his family reunion application

‘I am more than evidence, more than a witness, more than a product of rape. I am not your shame,’ daughter says

Sudesh Amman had voiced his wish to carry out a terror attack before leaving prison

It comes after separate figures showed Scotland is the worst-affected in Europe

‘We are on your side,’ prime minister tells pro-democracy leader

Legal requirements for social distancing and limits on the size of social gatherings to be removed

Clearance for more under-18s to be inoculated against coronavirus is expected from the government’s official vaccination advisers “within the next few days”, Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon has said.

Attacker Sudesh Amman said the high-security Belmarsh prison was the ‘answer to his prayers’

Alleged Isis fighter only prosecuted over propaganda on return to UK because he had been jailed by Turkey

Most neighbourhoods located in southwest England but some built-up areas also included in list

In the UK, a surrogate is the legal parent unless a parental order is signed

The Queen’s son retired from royal duties in late 2019

‘Sufficient evidence’ that one-time top cop - who previously led abuse investigation into Sir Edward Heath - may have behaved unprofessionally

Almost 700,000 people were ‘pinged’ by the app last week

Adam Stanmore died in June 2019

Big companies and lenders ‘failing to halt loss of vital tree cover’, contributing to nature and climate crises

Pregnant women are more likely to develop serious illness from infection, experts say

Head of Joint Biosecurity Centre has left her post, minister confirms

‘Three other female staff members had been also been assaulted by the same man,’ says supermarket worker

Sasha Attwood told her YouTube subscribers that she’d received hundreds of death threats a day online

Exclusive: ‘She is trying to get her money back. Also by this stage, her real life feels so scary and so dark she can’t face it so she is continually seeking to escape it,’ says psychotherapist

‘You can be White English but you can’t be Black English,’ says MP