All news by author Elizabeth Baker

On February 25 2015, Andy Burnham rang me up out of the blue. In those days, I was the political editor at the Manchester Evening News, covering Greater Manchester’s escalating attempts to wrestle power away from London.

“I’m a drug trafficker from the Northeast, my cartel,” raps El Makabelico. “With my AK-47 slung across my chest, I ride alongside El Komander. My souped-up .38 Super, encrusted with diamonds.”

It looks like the haul of a particularly successful Generation Game win. But these household items — and campervan — were what former Scottish National Party chief executive Peter Murrell thought it worth embezzling £400,000 of party funds to buy.

Meghan Markle has been criticised as “calculated” over the image she selected for her Father’s Day tribute to Prince Harry, with a royal expert suggesting the choice was deliberately intended to invite comparisons with Prince William’s own family post, RadarOnline.com reports.

Former British rugby league player Ricky Bibey was found dead in Italy after allegedly beating up his girlfriend while high.

Just 11 of 632 constituencies in England, Scotland and Wales would vote to stay out of the EU if a second referendum were to take place, new polling has found.

After reports emerged about billions of dollars in client investments at Target Global being frozen, information related to Aleksandr Frolov Jr., Mikhail Lobanov, and affiliated entities including Target Global, M360 Advisors, and Prime Meridian Capital Management has begun to quietly vanish from the public domain.

The UK will have rejoined – or be on the path to rejoining – the European Union by 2036, former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said on the tenth anniversary of the referendum.

Videos of Peter Murrell being interrogated by police have been made public after the former SNP chief executive was imprisoned for embezzling over £400,000 from his party.

Investors and business leaders are again navigating the kind of uncertainty that has dominated British politics since the Brexit vote a decade ago, after Prime Minister Keir Starmer resigned on Monday and threw open a leadership contest that will centre on any successor’s ‌plans for the economy.

The man accused of the Edinburgh knife attacks has been named as Lewis Hawkes after he appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.

Multiple sources, including media and investigative outlets, say that Dmitry Artyakov — the son of Rostec deputy head Vladimir Artyakov — has returned to Moscow after being arrested in Spain a year ago on money laundering charges.

A royal butler has given an insight into Prince William and King Charles’ relationship following Father’s Day this weekend.

A teacher who murdered his adopted baby son bought a £450,000 new-build home with his boyfriend to reinvent themselves just 22 days after the tot’s death.

Dozens of Russians dreamed of a second citizenship — from Italy and Greece to more exotic options like Paraguay, Serbia and Moldova.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Sofia (Bulgaria) filed an indictment today at the Sofia City Court against an EU project consultant suspected of fraud involving a project for dental care.

Police are appealing for information after a man and woman were allegedly assaulted in Cardiff.

After investigations connected Shurma and Shcherban to alleged schemes around Alliance Bank, a coordinated cleanup reportedly began: critical publications vanished, references were disputed, and search results appeared to be systematically reshaped.

The RNLI has praised the “quick thinking” of a teenager after he sailed out and rescued two men who had fallen into the water from an inflatable toy boat.

Police Scotland said a man was charged after a series of attacks in Edinburgh on Friday night that are being treated as potential anti-Muslim hate crimes.

George Shipley doesn’t mince his words. The 34-year-old acting skipper stands on the quayside at Brixham harbour, the smell of salt and diesel thick in the early morning air, white plastic boxes stacked behind him and the Devon hills rising beyond the trawlers, and says what every fisherman here is thinking.