4+ hour, 23+ min ago  (311+ words) A councillor has raised concerns that Staffordshire Police could be merged with a larger force under government plans. Councillor Joe Porter has submitted a motion to debate the matter at Staffordshire Moorlands District Council, in which he urged the authority…...

6+ hour, 55+ min ago  (651+ words) The public inquiry into the Nottingham attacks will be a "test of whether this country is prepared to confront failure and fix it", the victims' families have said. The judge-led inquiry is due to examine events leading up to the…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago  (1327+ words) Ten police front counters are due to close at the end of this month, despite campaigners claiming the move could put the most vulnerable Londoners at risk. The mayor and the Metropolitan Police had promised that every London borough would…...

6+ day, 39+ min ago  (1520+ words) When Jelena returns home from a "holiday of a lifetime" travelling around South America later this year, she faces being told she can no longer enter the UK. The British-Latvian dual national is among those who say they have been…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago  (677+ words) A group of 34 Australian women and children who have been held in a camp in northern Syria for nearly seven years due to their links to the Islamic State (IS) group were released on Monday to head home, but then…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago  (425+ words) A former prison site once earmarked for asylum seeker accommodation will be redeveloped for housing, the government confirmed. Homes England said the Home Office had officially transferred the HMP Northeye site in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex to the housing agency. The…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (704+ words) A British couple detained by the Taliban in Afghanistan for seven-and-a-half months have described a "huge culture shock" after returning to the UK. Peter, 80, and his wife Barbie Reynolds, 76, said they were never told why they were being held, nor…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (927+ words) The Home Office's decision to proscribe Palestine Action under anti-terrorism legislation was unlawful, the High Court has ruled. But the group remains banned for now to allow for further legal arguments and to give the government time to consider an…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (670+ words) Plans to make migrants wait longer to get the right to live in the UK permanently should not apply to people already in the country, Labour MPs have said. A letter to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, signed by 35 Labour MPs,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (768+ words) Bosses at embattled Capita have apologised for the saga which has left thousands of retired civil servants without pension payments. Capita took over the administration of the Civil Service Pension Scheme in December, but said it inherited a backlog of…...