Overcrowding in prisons in England and Wales has contributed to soaring reoffending rates, with staff too overburdened to help offenders prepare for life on the outside. 

After a drubbing in the local elections and with migrants continuing to cross the Channel in small boats, the government is set to unveil its plan to reduce migration numbers on Monday. 

The events in Kashmir have ramifications here in the UK, not least in Bradford, where more than a quarter of people identify as Pakistani. 

We report from Doncaster where the council is now controlled by Reform.

Kevin Martin is the head of Tree collections at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew - he spoke to us earlier from a digital installation around one of their ancient oaks.

The pop superstar, 44, was photographed standing through the moonroof of a black Mercedes SUV as it cruised along the busy 101 Freeway near Studio City.

The BBC is scrambling to make savings after discovering a £500million hole in its budget and has announced a bloodbath of cuts

The chain announced plans to reword its sanitary hygiene signs to the gender-neutral term 'period care' after receiving criticism that 'not all people who have periods are women'.

The 30-strong list is dominated by well-known Labour MPs and includes a senior minister accused of forcibly kissing a member of his office staff in front of colleagues.

As a procession of luxury cars swept through the gates of the King's estate in Gloucestershire on Friday - carrying guests for an exclusive Chanel luncheon - one vehicle attracted little attention.

Grace Olivier, 35, says she isn't downtrodden and chooses to stick to traditional gender roles

Michelle Thorn says the change came when she took up a 10-minute-a day routine

The dog had been 'cleared' by police just days before the eight-minute mauling

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Thames Valley Police are hunting for a suspect after a man reported that he was raped by another man in a car park in Reading. The suspect is alleged to have stolen £50

An emergency medical care expert has warned about kitchens and bathrooms

Jurassic Park and Peaky Blinders star Sam Neill has died aged 78.

Police are remaining "open-minded" about the motive behind the suspected murder of Ann Widdecombe after the arrest of a man in Yorkshire.

A wildfire of "exceptional scale" has broken out in a forest near Paris, as the country battles it third heatwave of the summer.

A British woman who was taken to hospital after a wildfire swept through southern Spain has become the 13th person to die in the tragedy, officials in the Andalusia region have said.

A major incident has been declared by emergency services dealing with a large wildfire in North Wales.

Most deaths will have occurred in the June heatwave, experts say, when a rare red heat alert was issued.

The UK medicines regulator has given approval for an experimental vaccine to be tested on healthy adults.

Calls have grown to deport Rochdale grooming gang ringleader Shabir Ahmed after his release from prison.

Police say they are not looking for anyone else after a 28-year-old man was arrested in Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

After a brief drop in temperature many areas will see heat and humidity build again this week

Conor Harding, 21, from Chingford, has been diagnosed with leukaemia four times

Long queues started to build following the incident.

The number of migrants crammed into unseaworthy boats has been rising year on year, the Home Office says.

The new services are expected to roll out at Post Office branches across the UK this year

The Oxfordshire based business held a meeting for creditors to decide its fate

Police say there is currently ‘nothing to suggest’ Ms Widdecombe’s murder was terror-related or politically motivated

Mr Farage is facing scrutiny over a £5m gift from a crypto billionaire and a £1m donation from convicted fraudster George Cottrell’s mother

Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team said it was called to help Tokyo last weekend

The retail giant is opening two new floors of the shop in the iconic Pantheon building

Nigel Farage's 'quit-and-reapply' stunt was intended to prove himself as the anti-establishment underdog, but all he’s really done is highlight the holes in his own illusion, say ex-Whitehall insiders Helen MacNamara and Cleo Watson. Reported by Ma...