Not since 1998 had the men's Scotland football team played in a major footballing tournament.

The anti-corruption watchdog has said ministers and senior civil servants could be banned from lobbying for up to five years after leaving office and face penalties if they break the rules.

Today an internal review by the BBC found Martin Bashir was the best match for the role at the time and dismissed claims his appointment was part of a cover-up.

Kent County Council has said that its children's services have been so overwhelmed by the arrival of unaccompanied child migrants that it has had to stop looking after them from today. 

Just after the prime minister's announcement, we spoke to James' lead singer Tim Booth and began by asking him how his planned gigs would be affected.

What will keeping the restrictions in England have on businesses like nightclubs, which have already been closed for more than 15 months?

One of the most vocal critics of the government's lockdown policies from the Tory benches is Sir Charles Walker

We spoke to Sage advisor Prof Sir Mark Walport

As infections have started to rise again, the Prime Minister said he had no choice but to delay lifting remaining lockdown restrictions in England until a greater proportion of the adult population is fully vaccinated.

Croydon, one of the boroughs worst hit by this type of violence, is now taking a different approach, one that favours communication and community policing. But is it enough to stop the bleeding?

World leaders have jetted off from the G7 summit in Cornwall after a final session discussing climate change. Before his own trip to see the Queen, Joe Biden waxed lyrical about how pleased he was with the summit and how the leaders were all getting ...

After a day of elbow bump greetings and meetings with the royal family, today it was down to business at the G7 summit in Cornwall, as the leaders held a series of bilateral meetings. Boris Johnson insisting he wanted “pragmatism and compromise...

At the G7 summit in Cornwall, we saw a Prime Minister far less hopeful than he was just a few weeks ago – telling this programme the Government must be cautious as it decides whether to delay lifting all of England’s lockdown restrictions...

Our Political Editor Gary Gibbon speaks to Boris Johnson from Cornwall, where the Prime Minister is hosting the first G7 summit – representing most of the world’s biggest economies – since the Covid pandemic with the global economic...

Protesters have also been out in force in Cornwall, calling on world leaders to take immediate action to tackle the "climate emergency". Hundreds of activists joined a parade through St Ives.