Watering down of legislation represents most significant knock to prime minister’s leadership since coming into power a year ago

Footage shows Lola Bignell in the Heath Road area of Dartford on Tuesday and appears to show that she has dyed her hair black

Thunderstorms are expected in Scotland and north-east England on Wednesday

Good Morning Britain’s Ed Balls and Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury clashed over welfare cuts, with the presenter chastising the Tory MP for “waffling”.

Santander said it plans a ‘rationalisation’ of the overall branch network

The group said it saw fewer customers pass through its doors

The government has announced the first increase in compensation rates in 25 years

49 Labour MPs voted against the welfare cuts in what is believed to be the most significant rebellion of his premiership

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Leonna Ruka, from Dagenham, was visiting family in the area on Saturday

Much of England is now in its fifth day of a heatwave, with Tuesday (1 July) expected to be hotter than holiday spots such as Barbados, Jamaica, and Mexico.

Aerial footage shows raging wildfires across Scotland’s Dava Moor, which has seen intense blazes for four days in a row.

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PM suffers largest rebellion of his premiership despite a climbdown in which he abandoned a key pillar of the reforms

Keir Starmer has suffered a blow inflicted by his own Labour MPs, but how does it stack up against previous votes under other prime ministers, including Tony Blair’s controversial policies on university tuition fees and the Iraq war?

Temperatures in the capital almost reached 35C on Tuesday, as the Met Office reported record-breaking heat in June

Watch as MPs voted to pass the Labour government’s welfare bill by 335 votes to 260 in the House of Commons on Tuesday (1 July).

Sir Keir Starmer’s weaknesses have been badly exposed in a chaotic debate around his welfare reforms. He needs to start listening to his MPs, notes David Maddox

In mid-June Yorkshire became the second region in England to move into official drought status after the driest spring in 132 years

Ministers close ‘lifeline’ sanctuary routes for Afghans who worked with British troops and who fought for democracy and womens’ rights

Almost 20,000 people have arrived in the UK across the Channel in the first six months of this year, 48 per cent more than 2024

A disabled Labour MP cried as she delivered an impassioned speech criticising her party's welfare cuts on Tuesday, 1 July.

Ryland Headley told he will die in prison after forcing open window at Louisa Dunne’s Bristol home and attacking her nearly six decades ago

The high street giant was forced to suspend online operations in April after hackers targeted its systems

Road surfaces can heat to as high as 50C in hot summer weather, causing them to melt

Families in last-minute battle to save Bishop Challoner School in London which faces closure on last day of term amid financial pressures

Christopher Brain surrounded himself with women known as ‘the Lycra Lovelies’ or ‘the Lycra Nuns’, the court heard

The school reported receiving a ‘bomb threat’ in the early hours of Tuesday morning

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For decades, Ryland Headley went undetected for the violent murder of Louise Dunne in Bristol, until police officers re-examining the case discovered key links to the killer from boxed evidence

As the UK swelters in record-breaking heat, our community shares a mix of passive cooling tips, views on air conditioning, and frustration with housing ill-suited to rising temperatures

It comes days after Starmer’s first year in power was dubbed ‘the worst of any newly elected prime minister’ by Britain’ts leading pollster

Former Countess of Chester Hospital nurse was convicted of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others

Keir Starmer is likely to have the numbers to get his legislation on welfare to pass its first hurdle today, writes David Maddox, but the concessions he has been forced to make show he’s rapidly losing control

Sir Keir Starmer’s concessions will likely be enough to win the vote, but the prime minister still faces a major rebellion on Tuesday

Warnings over extreme heat have been extended across much of England as temperatures are set to climb to 34C

Ministers will be hoping two key changes will be enough to keep wavering MPs on side

Keir Starmer’s U-turn has provided welcome relief to many disability benefit claimants – but cuts stay on the table

City councillor recalls wooden supports propping up the tree as far back as the 1990s