It’s full steam ahead for the renationalisation of Britain’s rail services. Today, South Western Trains became the first company to fall under public control – though the first nationalised service to depart – the 05:36 from Woking to London Waterloo – was actually a rail replacement bus. We weren’t up…

Four crew and 25 passengers were killed when the helicopter went down in foggy conditions over the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland on 2 June 1994.

Broadly speaking, there are two responses to Keir Starmer’s surrender of the Chagos Islands. The first is indignation. This is sovereign British territory and yet the Prime Minister has handed it over to a foreign country. The constitutional scholar Yuan Yi Zhu asserts that this decision ‘cannot be defended on any authoritative legal grounds’, and nor does it

The British ship is diverted to the port of Boulogne after being stopped by a French patrol boat.

The British ship is diverted to the port of Boulogne after being stopped by a French patrol boat.

The Reform leader is expected to announce his new promises in a speech next week in a speech where he will also accuse the PM as ‘one of the most unpatriotic prime ministers in our history.

Reform UK also plans to scrap the two-child benefit policy, as part of plans to outflank the government.

Plans to lift limits on child benefit payments and calls to restore the winter fuel allowance lead the papers.

Councils will get new powers to keep housebuilders on track to ensure they play their part to deliver 1.5 million homes.