The UK is taking "a safety first approach" in banning entry from six African countries in the face of a virulent new COVID variant, Grant Shapps has told Sky News.

France has cancelled a meeting with the UK to discuss Channel crossings after Boris Johnson asked the French to take back migrants arriving in Britain.

Four teenage boys have been arrested on suspicion of murdering 12-year-old Ava White in Liverpool.

More than £65bn was wiped off the UK’s leading share index on Friday, reflecting fears that a new coronavirus variant could wreak further havoc on international business and travel.

Cody Ackland, 24, has been charged with the murder of teenager Bobbi-Anne McLeod in Plymouth, Devon and Cornwall Police say.

Vaccines could be less effective against a new COVID variant that UK scientists are "deeply concerned" about, says the health secretary.

Two Welsh rugby teams are looking to repatriate their staff and players as soon as possible after South Africa was added to the travel red list.

Boris Johnson has offered to work with France to "move further and faster" in order to tackle small boat crossings and avoid a repeat of the "appalling tragedy" in the Channel that left 27 people dead.

Dawn is still breaking when we call in on Charles Devos, the man who saw it all.

French fishermen blocked off a boat in the port of St Malo this morning as they started a day of protests over post-Brexit fishing rights.