Any day now final judgement is expected in Edinburgh on the first of three possible launch pads for space rockets in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. The issue is divisive – bringing industrialists, crofters, bureaucrats and naturalists t...

Four years after the Grenfell Fire, disabled residents living above ground floor level across England say their lives are still being put at risk because tailored plans aren’t in place to safely evacuate them. The government is currently consul...

We spoke to the Belfast-based author and commentator, Susan McKay, about the latest political developments in Northern Ireland.

After only three weeks in the job, the new leader of the DUP, Edwin Poots is facing a challenge from within his own party. A sizeable number of DUP members of the Stormont assembly and some of its MPs reacted with fury after he struck a deal over the...

We spoke to Nick Aldworth, a former police counter-terrorism national coordinator, for his thoughts on the Manchester Arena public inquiry.

On the 22nd of May 2017, Salman Abedi walked across the foyer of the Manchester Arena towards an exit door with a bulging rucksack. As thousands left the concert hall, many to greet parents there to collect them, at 10.31pm he detonated his shrapnel-...

New figures show that more than 5,000 people have tried to cross the Channel so far this year, over 100 of them yesterday alone, picked up by Border Force officials as they attempted the dangerous journey to UK shores.

Completely "hopeless" - this is how the prime minister appeared to describe Health Secretary Matt Hancock in private WhatsApp messages published today by his former adviser Dominic Cummings.

Nadra Ahmed is the executive chair of the National Care Association.

The gradual lifting of Covid restrictions has seen some parts of the UK economy begin to bounce back, with unemployment falling for the fourth month in a row.

Britain and Australia have agreed the first post-Brexit trade deal to be negotiated from scratch.

We were joined from Westminster by Labour's Sarah Jones, who's shadow minister for policing.

Daniel Morgan’s brother has said he feels “a sense of vindication” after an inquiry accused the Metropolitan Police of “a form of institutional corruption” in how it dealt with the notorious unsolved murder.  

Earlier we spoke to the Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave and began by asking him whether he accepts that there is corruption in the Metropolitan Police.

"One of the most devastating episodes in the history of the Metropolitan Police" is how Home Secretary Priti Patel put it.