It's been four years since the campaigning organisation Operation Black Vote published “The Colour of Power”, a survey of who held the top jobs in significant public and private institutions.

There could be a surge of homeless people forced to sleep on England's streets unless the emergency scheme which helped them into accommodation during the pandemic is maintained, according to a panel of independent experts. 

Covid cases have fallen for the seventh day in a row across the UK, but the number of deaths has risen to its highest level in more than four months.

We spoke to the Crime and Policing Minister, Kit Malthouse, and began by asking whether the colourful language used to describe the new initiative evoked images of the racially-segregated Deep South.

Boris Johnson has declared he wants more criminals to be visibly punished, in what he called “fluorescent-jacketed chain gangs”. 

Today also saw a review published into five cases of sexual abuse in Bradford going back two decades. That report found that victims "suffered abuse that no child should have to experience". 

The award-winning author Alex Wheatle was placed in Shirley Oaks children's home when he was just three years old. He was sexually, physically and racially abused there. 

The findings could hardly be more shocking. Children in care "treated as if they were worthless", while abusers were allowed to infiltrate children's homes and foster care with "devastating, lifelong" consequences for their victims. 

Political leaders in the north of England say the prospect of a lengthy delay to new improved transport links for the region are "completely unacceptable".

Last week, a landmark sex discrimination case was won by two men. Until a few years ago they worked for the top London advertising agency JWT. 

Professor Sir Mark Walport is the government's former chief scientific adviser.

Covid cases across the UK have fallen for the sixth day in a row. Downing Street insisted the pandemic was "not over and we are not out of the woods yet", and that the downward trend could be reversed once the full effects of lifting England's restri...

Hospital security guards have been accused of abusing vulnerable patients after CCTV footage exclusively obtained by Channel 4 News shows an elderly man locked in a room for 11 hours without treatment, food or water. 

Children's education has been hugely disrupted by the pandemic - but the impact has by no means been equal.

As ministers try to keep the country moving despite high case numbers, they're considering plans to bring in a vaccine passport scheme this autumn to exclude people from attending mass events like concerts or sports matches unless they've had two jab...