All news for 2024-04-20

Taxpayers spent £16.2m on sending officers to assist struggling jails in 2023 – up from £2.3m four years ago

The Attorney General has confirmed that it is considering reviewing the sentences of Remy Gordon, 23, and Kami Carpenter, 22, who stabbed footballer Cody Fosher to death in Birmingham

Following a volcanic eruption in Indonesia, thousands of residents have evacuated their homes.

Labour also turns down European Commission’s proposal, which would have allowed young Britons to live, study and work in EU

Tit-for-tat attacks have breached taboo of direct strikes on each other’s territory but Tehran has no ‘immediate’ plans to retaliate

An app designed to reduce disruption for Brits travelling across the Channel will not be ready in time for a new EU border scheme, the boss of Eurostar has told the BBC.

A historic pub in London’s south-west was severely damaged in a fire on Friday night, London Fire Brigade said.

Labour demand government focus on cutting NHS wait times

Many in Vietnam are trapped in poverty and are susceptible to promises made by people smugglers of the riches to be found in the UK

Customers back in the UK are seeing a rise in the cost of a cuppa due to the war in the Middle East and inflation, with a box of 80 tea bags up 7% on a year ago

Max Azzarello, the conspiracy theorist who self-immolated in front of former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan on Friday, has died from his injuries, it was reported