Temperatures have already rocketed past 35C this week in UK’s longest heatwave since 1976

Georgia Aldridge faced a High Court trial over her ‘dropshipping’ business selling fake designer clothes

PM plans to fly to US for game before returning for final morning in top job, The Times reports

‘New information and evidence’ has come to light, counter-terror police have said as they take the lead from Devon & Cornwall Police

Keith Palmer is now caught up in a fight to keep his home near the hospital

The newborn’s name honours the late Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent

Tackle the cost of living crisis for children, incoming prime minister Andy Burnham is told

The water giant was fined over failings

Officers were called to Widdecombe's home shortly after midday on Thursday, where she was found dead

The former PM was talking at the Tony Blair Institute’s summer drinks in central London as Andy Burnham was effectively confirmed as Sir Keir Starmer’s replacement

Andy Burnham is expected to become prime minister on Monday

Police believe Ann Widdecombe was attacked just minutes after she sent her last text to staff at Channel 5

The government has indicated Pakistan could be threatened with visa restrictions unless it takes back Shabir Ahmed

After 13 years, researcher Graham Phillips claims his hunt for the remains of Alfred the Great has concluded

Female migrants at the centre have been unable to get around without a staff escort, a report by the Chief Inspector of Prisons said

Christopher Green said concerns had been raised at a relatively early stage that the ‘wrong people’ had been shot dead by the International Security Assistance Force

Speaking in Parliament after the death of Ann Widdecombe, the Commons Speaker said MPs’ concerns were always ‘passed on to the security people to deal with’

Andy Burnham was speaking at a one-party candidate leadership hustings to Labour MPs on Monday night, as it was also confirmed he’d be the next prime minister

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey is expected to warn Labour may be ‘powerless to do anything’ to change the voting system after the next election

Reform UK decided to continue providing its own protection for Nigel Farage, rather than ‘gamble with his life’, a spokesperson said

A tour of her remote Devon home aired on television days before the attack

Counter-terror police now leading investigation into ex-Tory minister’s death

Olly Robbins was sacked after it emerged that Peter Mandelson failed security checks to become US ambassador

Awaab’s Law puts the onus on landlords to respond to all types of emergency hazards within 24 hours

Keir Starmer has ordered that Iran's IRGC is proscribed over 'threats to life and intimidation on UK soil'

The British Council – core to UK cultural influence abroad – is to end its permanent presence in nations including Tanzania and Mozambique, closing its offices and withdrawing staff

Counter terror police are leading the investigation after the politician, 78, suffered serious injuries inside her remote home in Haytor

The government is ‘paying me Pip to manage my mental health because the NHS can’t cope’, one

Patrick Spencer, who lives in Suffolk, was suspended from the Tory Party and had the whip withdrawn after the sexual assault charges were brought last year

The protesters unfurled a banner that said ‘What did you know?’

A visible police presence will remain near Shrubland Hall in Suffolk over the coming days

A “heritage-to-housing” scheme as well as tax incentives, could be used to help bring old buildings back into use

Dale Harvey has visited 10,000 pubs and still has 25,000 to go

The 28-year-old suspect has been re-arrested by counterterror police

Chief political commentator John Rentoul answers readers’ questions on the standards committee investigation, Reform’s US funding rumours, and whether Farage’s by-election gamble could still backfire

Britain and Argentina fought a brief war in 1982 over the islands, which are administered by the UK but are still claimed by Argentina

The 29-year-old proposed with a porcelain ring that he made himself

The ceasefire in the Middle East pushed rates to drop – but the reverse could happen if hostilities ramp up

Nigel Farage paid tribute to Ann Widdecombe, telling reporters he did not believe her death was ‘a burglary that went wrong’

Khadeem Parris died from a stab wound last Tuesday in Northampton

Ann Widdecombe defended Nigel Farage’s re-election bid in Clacton as “the right course to take” in her final TV interview before her death at the age of 78.

Karenne Sylvester misgendered her colleague because she has dyspraxia, tribunal rules

Everyone should be ‘mindful of their water use’ amid the heatwave, an Environment Agency chief has said

A 59-year-old man has been arrested over the incident

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