A 39-year-old man is in a critical condition after being shot in the street in east London today. Armed police were called to Reede Road in Dagenham, at 4am, where the man and a 32-year-old woman were found injured. He was taken to hospital and is in critical but stable condition, while the woman suffered […]

Two brothers who were told off for moving closer to their mum during their dad’s funeral said they couldn’t ‘sit there and watch’ as she broke down. In footage of the funeral, Craig and Paul Bicknell can be sitting more than a metre away from their mum due to social distancing restrictions. They then moved […]

We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Mr Sunak has come under intense scrutiny over whether the scheme helped contribute to the spread of coronavirus. In response to the accusation levelled at him during a Sky News interview this […]

We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Harry and his wife Meghan Markle have come under intense scrutiny for their recent remarks about the upcoming US presidential election since moving to California. Now the couple are no longer working […]

The UK reported 14,542 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday – an increase of almost 2,000 compared with yesterday. Government data also shows that there have been 76 deaths within 28 days of a positive test. It comes after several days of confusion as 16,000 cases in England were missed by the NHS Test and Trace […]

More than a thousand students and staff at two universities have been forced to self-isolate after testing positive for coronavirus. Some 433 people at the University of Nottingham have contracted the virus, with 588 people at the University of Sheffield also testing positive. It comes after students from across the country travelled to cities to […]

We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Kate met students at the University of Derby to hear how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected university life and what national measures have been put in place to support their mental health.  […]

The bodies of a man, woman and three-year-old child have been found at an address in Brentford, west London, police have said. They were found at 12.50am on Tuesday morning at a home on Clayponds Lane, following concerns for the welfare of the occupants. A man, believed to be in his 40s, was found with […]

MOSCOW — Kyrgyzstan descended into political chaos on Tuesday after opposition groups seized control of Parliament and released their leaders from prison in protests over parliamentary elections they have denounced as rigged. Under mounting pressure from the protesters, the country’s Central Electoral Commission annulled the results of the Sunday vote, a day after awarding the […]

Boris Johnson has promised a scheme to allow first-time buyers to get a mortgage with just a 5% deposit, in an effort to turn ‘generation rent’ into ‘generation buy’. The PM told the virtual Tory party conference today that he hoped the plan would create two million new home owners, but offered little detail on […]