1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (443+ words) Prime Minister Andy Burnham is taking part in the Great North Run to raise money for a homelessness charity. Mr Burnham, wearing a Number 10 bib, was running in the half marathon to raise money for Changing Lives, which he visited…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (759+ words) Police officers and Army veterans came together to pay their respects to a former colleague and comrade who was killed on duty in a horrific crash on the A66. Hundreds gathered for the ceremony at Kirkleatham Walled Gardens in Redcar, Teesside,…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (874+ words) A police chief has said officers are “absolutely ready” to use powers to ban face coverings at anti-migration protests, saying hundreds of masked men descending on his town would make him “nervous as well”. Forces have stepped up planning and…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (913+ words) Mid Ulster District Council officers have responded to a ‘Tobacco and Vapes’ public consultation on packaging, with a clear recommendation that all tobacco products, including vapes, should be sold in plain packaging. The matter was listed for discussion at the…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (562+ words) This round-up of claims has been compiled by Full Fact, the UK’s independent fact checking charity which works to give people access to reliable information they can trust. Fake images of Portsmouth small boats protest shared online Two images which…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (574+ words) A protester called ex-home secretary Suella Braverman “Cruella Deville” in a speech outside Downing Street days after Hamas launched a deadly attack on Israel, a court has heard. Urslaan Khan, 44, is on trial at the Old Bailey accused of expressing…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (579+ words) The parents of two students who were stabbed to death by paranoid schizophrenic Valdo Calocane have branded Nottinghamshire Police’s decision not to disclose information about the killer “shameful”. Calocane killed first-year students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, before fatally…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (346+ words) Four people have been arrested on suspicion of murder over the death of a three-month-old child who was camping with family in Staffordshire. Officers were called to land off Strawberry Lane near Great Wyrley at 8.45am on Saturday by paramedics from…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (599+ words) In life as in sport, it is often those people who are prepared to go “the extra mile” who really make an impact on the lives of others. And, this year’s Sporting Champion Ian Birney from Enniskillen certainly embodies this…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (278+ words) An island on Lower Lough Erne has been purchased by RSPB Northern Ireland. Carr Island is the latest purchase by the nature conservation charity and is a bid to create a space to allow threatened species to thrive. The purchase…...