Two people have been seriously injured in the incident as the RAIB are investigating the cause of the derailment

Police federation chiefs condemned the government’s decision not to block the killers as ‘outrageous’

Five homes have been destroyed in the blaze, which broke out in an adjacent field

Only two of the 34 candidates secured enough votes to take back their deposit

Midlands Fire Service has said 14 fire engines remain at the scene

The Reform UK leader claimed there was a ‘credible threat’ against him attending the count

Razzell’s family have said they ‘will not feel safe’ if the wife murderer is released

James will study rural land and property management at the Cirencester-based university

The Reform UK MP refused to attend the count in the Essex constituency after forcing the contest with his resignation last month

Police officers are working with Health and Safety Executive to understand the circumstances surrounding the explosion

‘Over one in four people in this constituency would rather have Count Binface as their MP than the leader of Reform UK, and I’m just getting started’, the joke candidate said

Reform leader forced a by-election to try to escape a political crisis but may simply have postponed, and even intensified, the inevitable, writes Kate Devlin

Nigel Farage beat trash-can wearing comic candidate Count Binface on Friday, regaining a seat in Parliament he quit a month ago to trigger the widely mocked special election

‘This summer’s heatwaves appear to be influencing how people think about their homes,’ a property expert at Rightmove said

With the drought hitting millions and putting Southern Water weeks away from completely running dry, Helen Coffey looks at what we can do as individuals – and as a nation – to conserve water as back-to-back heatwaves look set to be a recurring as...

Detective leading the investigation says police are awaiting the post-mortem examination

Sir Stephen Timms has issued an update to people receiving universal credit, Pip, and the state pension

Rose Johnston was found with a blunt-force head injury at her home in Dovecot, Liverpool, on Saturday October 4 last year

Multiple people were hospitalised as fires broke out across the region in scenes described as ‘apocalyptic’

Mr Burnham will tell small business owners he has their back, and said there is ‘more to do’ to ‘deliver jobs and growth in every postcode’

Carriages ‘jumped upwards’ says survivor as air ambulance and rail crash investigators attend scene in Lewes, East Sussex

A 56-year-old man from Llanelli has been arrested

Prime minister tells water companies to stop treating customers like a ‘bottomless source of funding for other people’s failures’

Exclusive: A Labour Party pressure group has attacked the government’s approach to immigration, criticising it for adopting a ‘Reform/Conservative style immigration policy’

Exclusive: Amid growing pressure on the public finances, a Labour Party pressure group has urged Andy Burnham to ‘allow rich, well-off pensioners to opt out of their state pension for 3+ years in return for a Pensions Sacrifice OBE’

Exclusive: Labour Party pressure group Compass has put together a report - seen by The Independent - outlining 100 policies for the new prime minister’s first 100 days

Jenna Lennon pleaded not guilty at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday

Met Office data suggests the UK is on track to see its hottest summer since records began

Adina Mihai posed as a sex worker before spiking victim’s drinks to steal from them while they were unconscious with Madalin Dumitru

The discovery of the human remains was made in Biggin Hill in London last Friday

Samantha Dallimore went out for lunch at a café that did not serve alcohol, before feeling 'drowsy' and 'not right' after taking her medication

Millions turned their eyes to the skies for the best solar eclipse since the turn of the century

An inquest heard how the aircraft ‘unexpectedly crashed’ in a field in Ongar

Exclusive: Campaigners say app creators are allowing women and children to be violated, abused and harmed

Experts have warned that the ‘flash droughts’ caused by a series of heatwaves and lack of rainfall have led to reservoirs struggling

Robert Scott joined a demonstration in Liverpool city centre back in June after previous disruption in Belfast

Two thirds of people in Clacton said they would vote for Nigel Farage if the by-election was held tomorrow

Anti-migrant disorder broke out in Thetford, Norfolk last week with police officers assaulted and several people arrested

Sir Mark Rowley has pointed out failures by other organisations in allowing double-murderer Simon Levy to remain on the streets

The public may need to accept that lawns will be yellow during dry summers

Yvette Cooper suggested Andy Burnham is better suited for ‘a world of social media’

Officials will write to those affected by the errors

RCN chief executive and general secretary Professor Nicola Ranger says nursing staff are being ‘failed’

As almost three-quarters of England faces drought and a fifth heatwave looms, our readers say water companies have little right to demand restraint from customers while mains leaks go unfixed and dividends flow to shareholders

There is a belief that the Conservatives ‘have not learned their lessons’, researchers say

Kirklees councillor David Rowan called for then Commons speaker John Bercow to be hanged in 2019

Summer conditions are fuelling the already dire pothole crisis in the UK, which costs motorists an annual £3.3bn in vehicle repairs

Rain is likely in northern parts of the UK later this month as most of the country is now in drought

The whole of Wales and some 71.3 per cent of England is now in drought

Experts fear that another increase to energy bills could come in October

Auguste-Marie Bile-aka Amoa, 25, was named by police as the victim of the attack

Following the verdicts in Levy’s case, the Metropolitan Police, British Transport Police and Crown Prosecution Service admitted failings in how they dealt with the serial sex offender

Ioan Fechete faced sexual assault and rape charges in Britain