The alert will be in place from 10am on Wednesday to 10am on July 15, with ‘significant impacts’ likely across health and social care services.

Mr Hamilton joined demonstrators from campaign group Save Wimbledon Park outside the Royal Courts of Justice on Tuesday.

French president Emmanuel Macron said talks with the UK would also cover defence, security and nuclear energy.

England has had the hottest spring and the driest for more than a century, with northern areas drought-stricken.

Tory former Cabinet minister Lord Norman Tebbit, who has died aged 94, was an “icon in British politics”, Kemi Badenoch said. The Conservative grandee was one of Margaret Thatcher’s closest political ...

Ireland’s foreign affairs minister said the EU and the US must work “intensively” to get a deal on tariffs in place before the deadline for increased rates, but added he has concerns for the pharma ...

The Office for Budget Responsibility said the state finances were facing ‘mounting risks’ in the face of growing debts.

It comes as education unions have raised concerns about the statutory tests taken by Year 6 pupils in primary schools across England.

Edinburgh and Birmingham airports have become the latest airports to allow passengers to keep liquids in their bags when going through security.

Musician and producer Jordan Rakei recorded more than 50 sounds such as travellers’ footsteps, passports being stamped and aircraft engines.

A number of compensation schemes have been set up after subpostmasters had their lives destroyed by the Post Office Horizon scandal. Here, the PA news agency looks at the ways in which victims have ...

Tory former Cabinet minister Lord Norman Tebbit has died aged 94, his son said. The Conservative grandee was one of Margaret Thatcher’s closest political allies and played a key role in Tory politics ...