Maternity care in England needs urgent improvement to prevent unnecessary deaths, MPs have warned, highlighting the shortage of midwives and a persistent culture of blame.

Britain faces a triple threat and "potentially catastrophic" risks from the pandemic, a soaring debt mountain and climate change, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility.

We spoke to  the Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen and Bella Sankey, director of the human rights group Detention Action.

People trying to cross the Channel to reach UK shores could, in theory at least, be turned back by Border Force officials while they're still out at sea.

A 19-year-old who was once referred to the Government's anti extremism programmes has been found guilty of murdering two sisters - as part of a Satanic pact to win a lottery jackpot.

We spoke to the former government Chief Scientific Adviser Professor Sir Mark Walport.

We spoke to the vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi

The UK could be seeing 100,000 new Covid cases a day by next month, the Health Secretary has admitted.

We speak to a hereditary peer, a life peer and a constitutional expert to understand why it’s so damn hard to try to change a House that is one of the largest parliamentary bodies in the world - only beaten in number by the Chinese National People'...

Today marks the 73rd birthday of the National Health Service and to coincide, the organisation has been awarded the George Cross by the Queen, who commended the "courage, compassion and dedication" of all its staff.

Four years on from the Grenfell fire disaster, and hundreds of thousands of homeowners are facing hefty bills to remove cladding, often running into tens of thousands of pounds. 

For supporters of Biomass, it is a vital tool in helping the UK switch away from fossil fuels. Biomass involves burning energy crops or waste timber in power stations that used to burn coal.

Conservative MP Jake Berry was the Northern Powerhouse minister until 2020 and joined us from Westminster, and Kate Bell is head of employment rights at the TUC and joined us from south east London.

The latest 24-hour government figures for the UK show that the number of new Covid cases rose by more than 27,000.

The final decision will not come for another week, but Boris Johnson did not leave much doubt about his determination to scrap England's Covid restrictions at his Downing Street press conference this afternoon.