Deputy Prime Minister Ms Rayner said the Government was ‘taking a step towards relighting the fire in our great regions’.

A murderer’s public parole hearing has been branded “a shambles” by the victim’s family after technical difficulties meant they couldn’t hear proceedings. The hearing for William Dunlop, who strangled ...

Lawyers for child serial killer Lucy Letby will make a fresh bid to challenge her convictions on the grounds that the lead prosecution medical expert at her trial was “not reliable”. Her barrister, ...