Labour fights to hold on to Runcorn in byelection despite Reform surge

Labour candidate insists seat is ‘definitely still in play’ in first electoral test of Keir Starmer’s government

‘Weather-proofing’ fund to help Welsh tourism industry brave soggy summers

Business owners will be able to apply for up to £20,000 for measures such as covered seating and mudproof car parks

‘Labour have done nothing but lie’: grievances fuel Runcorn byelection battle

‘Dogfight’ between Labour and Reform UK is turning ugly after Nigel Farage’s party put immigration centre stage

UK records hottest day of year so far as mercury hits 24.9C

Forecasters say temperature could soar to 30C later this week, the earliest date the high would have been reached

Trump ‘makes trade deal with UK second-order priority’ in blow to ministers

US officials have split negotiations with countries into three phases, sources say, with South Korea taking priority

Phasing out fossil fuels ‘doomed to fail’, says Tony Blair as he calls for rethink of net zero policy – as it happened

‘Any strategy based on either phasing out fossil fuels in the short term or limiting consumption is a strategy doomed to fail,’ says former PM

Leeds crossbow suspect ‘wrote Facebook manifesto citing terrorism and misogynistic rage’

Owen Lawrence, 38, believed to have shot two women in Headingley before turning weapon on himself

Kemi revels in a Conservative electoral drubbing – in Canada of course

Never mind potential losses at home, the Tory leader was loving the fall of Robert Jenrick’s heroes across the pond

Anne Harper obituary

Political activist, co-founder of Women Against Pit Closures and former wife of Arthur Scargill when he was president of the National Union of Mineworkers

Two men filmed felling of Sycamore Gap tree during ‘mindless’ act, court hears

Jury shown phone footage with sound of chainsaw and toppling tree, in trial of pair who deny criminal damage