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Watch live as MPs debate and vote on the Labour government’s welfare bill in the House of Commons on Tuesday (1 July).

MPs debating second reading of bill in Commons ahead of crunch vote

The 28-year-old has also been charged with child destruction after the mother-of-two died.

Police believe the crop, which weighed upwards of 1,000kg, had a value of about £12m.

Almost 20,000 people have arrived in the UK across the Channel in the first six months of this year, 48 per cent more than 2024

A disabled Labour MP cried as she delivered an impassioned speech criticising her party's welfare cuts on Tuesday, 1 July.

Sir Ephraim Mirvis hit out after Bob Vylan's controversial performance at Glastonbury was aired by BBC.

Temperatures are set to fall after a scorching days in parts of England.

Kai Roberts, who is 24, was working in Zante when a quad bike he was on hit a wall on Sunday.

Leonna Ruka died after being injured in a Southend park and her family calls her "a light in our lives".

Leonna Ruka died after being injured in a Southend park and her family calls her "a light in our lives".

Leonna Ruka, from Dagenham, was visiting family in the area on Saturday

Ryland Headley told he will die in prison after forcing open window at Louisa Dunne’s Bristol home and attacking her nearly six decades ago

The group could be banned as soon as Friday under government plans.

The high street giant was forced to suspend online operations in April after hackers targeted its systems

A seven-year-old girl who died after a tree partially collapsed at a park in Essex has been named.

A 15-year-old boy told his headteacher "I'm not right in the head" after fatally stabbing a fellow pupil in the heart, a jury has been told.

Rebel Labour MPs have been given a last-minute concession to the welfare bill, the government has announced.

Ministers close ‘lifeline’ sanctuary routes for Afghans who worked with British troops and who fought for democracy and womens’ rights

Road surfaces can heat to as high as 50C in hot summer weather, causing them to melt

Official figures show that the birth rate in England and Wales went up for the first time since 2021.

A man has been charged with murder and child destruction after the death of a pregnant woman in Northern Ireland.

Families in last-minute battle to save Bishop Challoner School in London which faces closure on last day of term amid financial pressures

Christopher Brain surrounded himself with women known as ‘the Lycra Lovelies’ or ‘the Lycra Nuns’, the court heard

The school reported receiving a ‘bomb threat’ in the early hours of Tuesday morning

Official figures show nearly 20,000 people have crossed the English Channel from France since January.

In 2024 a jury found McGregor assaulted Nikita Hand in a Dublin hotel in December 2018.

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For decades, Ryland Headley went undetected for the violent murder of Louise Dunne in Bristol, until police officers re-examining the case discovered key links to the killer from boxed evidence

The Met Office has suggested temperatures could still get hotter as the capital could see 35C on Tuesday