Italy’s detention of rescue vessels in Mediterranean will lead to more deaths, say campaigners Organisations working on route used by people trying to reach Europe say they are punished for saving lives
Help wanted: Reeves seeks heavyweight economic advisers as budget looms Chancellor under pressure to recruit new experts as John Van Reenen and Anna Valero return to academia
Woman and two children die in Northern Ireland shooting Police say three dead and man seriously injured were from same household in Maguiresbridge, County Fermanagh
Police dismiss claims they bussed anti-racists to Epping asylum hotel protest Essex force describes allegation, repeated by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and others, as ‘categorically wrong’
Ex-cricketer Graham Thorpe ‘spiralled into depression’ after losing job, inquest hears Loss of England batting coach job after 2022 Ashes series was ‘start of decline of his mental health’, widow says
Reform spent £350 on champagne at luxury lunch, election spending figures show Other expenditures include £989 stay at London hotel but party sources say costs not incurred by Nigel Farage
Tories say Starmer has a ‘disconnect from reality’ over housing asylum seekers – as it happened Newly appointed shadow housing secretary James Cleverly says there is no excuse for recent riots but government is making a difficult situation worse
Heathrow fire cost airport tens of millions of pounds, says CEO Thomas Woldbye speaks of damages claim as a possibility and expresses caution over a third runway
Cornwall surgeon accused of fraud over amputation of his own legs Neil Hopper, 49, from Truro appears in court accused of lying to insurers about how he lost his legs
Welsh community races to save chapel where Cwm Rhondda hymn first sung Fundraising campaign launched after Grade II-listed Capel Rhondda, near Pontypridd, put up for sale