We asked the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police to come on and discuss the issue, but were told no one was available. We talk to Shadow Policing Sarah Jones, Conservative MP David Simmonds, and Leroy Logan, a, retired superintendent who spent 30...

As schoolboys, they were taken into a room five at a time and told they had months to live. The boys of Treloar's College had been infected with HIV as part of their treatment for haemophilia.

For many young people in the UK, carrying a knife is, they say, a necessity. Not because they are violent but because they fear being the victims of violence.

The statistics on the number of deaths from knife crime are stark. Some 548 people were murdered using a knife or bladed object in 2020.

Large crowds of Scotland and England fans have been gathering in central London ahead of tonight's Euro 2020 clash at Wembley Stadium, despite appeals for anyone without a ticket to stay away.

MPs have said they feel "deeply ashamed" of low conviction rates for rape cases in England and Wales, promising sweeping changes to the criminal justice system. But do they go far enough? Anja Popp reports.

The Democratic Unionist Party is looking for a new leader again, as Edwin Poots stepped down after just 21 days in the job.

We spoke to the political sociologist Paula Surridge and former Tory MP for the neighbouring constituency, David Gauke.

The Liberal Democrats have hailed their landslide victory in the Chesham and Amersham by-election, declaring it will send a "shockwave through British politics".

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-...