Tories continue pressure over Swift concert escort
Getty Images Senior Conservatives have continued to question the government over the police escorts Taylor Swift received to her concerts at Wembley Stadium in August. Ministers have denied interfering with…
US Secret Service has ‘deep flaws’, scathing report says
The US Secret Service has “deep flaws” that need to be resolved urgently or more assassination attempts like the one at Donald Trump’s rally will happen again, a damning report…
Tory MP criticised for saying Badenoch preoccupied with her children
A Conservative MP has been criticised for saying he would not be voting for Kemi Badenoch as party leader because she is “preoccupied with her own children”. Sir Christopher Chope…
Blackpool BGT auditions postponed after Liam Payne’s death
PA Media BGT Presenters Ant McPartlin (left) and Declan Donnelly (Ant and Dec) leave The Grand Hotel in Lytham Saint Annes, Lancashire after auditions are suspended Auditions for the next…
Tom Hunter pays for plane to bring Alex Salmond’s body home
PA Media Sir Tom Hunter says the former first minister and his family deserve “dignity and privacy” Businessman and philanthropist Sir Tom Hunter has paid for the plane flying Alex…
Bumper year for HRT prescriptions on the NHS in England
Getty Images The NHS has had a bumper year for offering hormone replacement therapy (HRT), latest figures show. Some 13 million items were prescribed to an estimated 2.6 million patients…
Vengeance Most Fowl first trailer released
Trailer teases first Wallace and Gromit film for 19 years The first trailer for Wallace and Gromit’s return to the small screen has been released. Vengeance Most Fowl, the pair’s…
France to cut Martinique prices over cost of living unrest
PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP Protests against the high cost of living began at the start of September After more than six weeks of protests over the high cost of living on the…
Ministers to give magistrates more sentencing powers
Ministers are giving magistrates new sentencing powers in an effort to ease record delays to criminal trials, despite the fact that they are likely to temporarily push the prison population…
Man ‘knew he was buying London Bridge for Arizona’
Michael McCulloch Is the myth that a man called Robert McCulloch (centre) bought the wrong London Bridge real? It’s one of London’s urban legends that an American entrepreneur once thought…