Russian naval aggression prompts new defensive initiative with ‘beer-drinking nations’
New alliance with the Netherlands and Baltic and Nordic countries comes in response to 41% increase in Russian naval activity around UK
Planned Tory welfare cuts ‘a charter for human misery,’ says Labour – as it happened
Conservative leader launches Welfare That Works policy document outlining benefit reductions of £36bn
Call it tough love, with the love removed: it’s Kemi’s war on benefits claimants
The Tory leader outlines her £36bn welfare cuts, again, to an audience of an age and a wealth that they don’t need to work
Meghan makes first public appearance since father’s arrest but pulls out of speech
Duchess ‘not strong enough’ to speak about child safety after Thomas Markle Sr charged with child sexual offences
US evacuates aircraft from RAF Mildenhall over reported Iran threat
Move comes weeks after Washington withdrew bombers from RAF Fairford after a suspected security incident
Tommy Walsh, co-presenter of BBC’s Ground Force, dies aged 69
Former builder got his big break after restoring the home of a producer who was working on a precursor to the show
Barnsley workers strike over nursery privatisation by Reform council
Women say move will be ‘massively detrimental’ to services for vulnerable children, and hit their own pensions
Mahmood’s ICE-style immigration raid agency accused of ‘fishing expeditions’
Exclusive: Almost two-thirds of visits lead to no arrests and nearly three-quarters are conducted without a warrant
Reform UK councillor in Sunderland handed community order after racist ‘joke’ about Nigerians
Glenn Gibbins sentenced to 150 hours of unpaid work by South Tyneside magistrates over 2024 Facebook post
Burnham warns that NHS will ‘struggle’ to cope if consultants don’t resume talks over pay – as it happened
Hospital consultants are set to go on a two-day strike at the end of October