Legal challenges launched over accommodation ‘adequacy’ as UK government closes more asylum hotels ...

Prime minister-in-waiting votes for plans to tighten appeals system as 14 Labour MPs oppose measures ...

Home secretary also set to outline plans to enable deportation of grooming gang ringleader Shabir Ahmed ...

Officers say decision made after ‘new information and evidence has come to light’ ...

Three of those arrested were detained on suspicion of conspiracy to murder, say counter-terrorism police ...

Pilot took off from Liverpool and spent 20 minutes tracing out phrase that was captured on flight-tracking website ...

How the celebrity-backed legal action against one of Britain’s most powerful newspapers fell apart ...

Couple ‘devastated’ after DNA tests for children’s British citizenship showed no biological connection to them A British-based couple who had twins through an overseas surrogacy agency later ...

Fire in Walthamstow producing a ‘significant amount of smoke’, says London fire brigade ...

Three-year plan will deliver an extra 500 officers to patrol Jewish neighbourhoods after series of antisemitic incidents ...

Disruption at Channel crossings expected to rise amid new fingerprint and facial recognition checks ...

Youngsters confirmed safe but men pronounced dead after being brought out of water at Seaton Carew, Hartlepool ...