As the fourth child of immigrants from the Punjab, Parm Sandhu barely spoke English as a child. She was forced into marriage, but eventually fled to London, where she joined the Metropolitan Police.

But as people gathered, scientists were sounding the alarm about the threat from a third wave of infections.

A survey of early years teachers by Channel 4 News shows a worryingly high number think the youngest school pupils have been hit hard by the pandemic.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a young mother and her nine-year-old son in Lincolnshire.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has paused part of her roadmap out of Scotland’s Covid crisis as cases of the Indian variant rise.

Vaccines have played a key role in reducing hospital numbers and today has seen the launch of a world first Covid booster trial in the UK.

We talk to Professor Ravi Gupta.  He's a clinical microbiologist who sits on the government's NERVTAG committee, which advises on the threats posed by Covid and other viruses.

Cathy Newman speaks to Professor Peter Openshaw of Imperial College London about the implications of rising daily cases of Covid-19.

The housing charity Shelter says hundreds of thousands of people are worried about being forced out of their rented homes as the ban on evictions during the pandemic in England comes to an end today.

Hundreds of Afghans who worked for the British military, mostly as interpreters, are to be allowed to settle in the UK, along with their families.

The data are proving increasingly troubling for scientists advising the government.

Travel bubbles, pre-flight testing, post-flight testing: they’ve all been buzz words for more than a year, and yet we seem none the wiser.

Darshna Soni has been talking to The Selecter lead singer Pauline Black, about life on the frontline of Two Tone Britain.

Police officers searching a cafe in Gloucester for the remains of a possible victim of serial killer Fred West say they have not found any human remains.

The unemployment rate for Black people is more than twice the rate for the white population, and for young Black people it is even higher.