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The former health secretary plans to allow more drilling fr poil and gas and centralise decision making on major projects like energy plans and data centres

The prime minister, who set out the plans as he arrived in France for the G7 summit, warned that Putin’s ‘aggression threatens not just Ukraine, but the security of all Europe’

‘You’ve got to decide if you want to take the debate forward and you want to work on solutions’, says Kim Leadbeater, a decade after her sister’s murder

The captain is scheduled to appear at Southampton Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex welcomed the ban but said the ‘measures do not fix the problem at its source’

Protesters were seen being carried away by police officers

Royal Marine commandos and officers from the National Crime Agency seized the tanker Smyrtos in the Channel in the first UK-led operation to capture a sanctioned vessel

Campaigners and MPs have warned the PM is missing a ‘once in a lifetime’ chance to force platforms to introduce lasting change

Ukrainian builder Roman Lavrynovych, 22, was recruited by a Russian speaking Telegram account known as ‘El Money’

Sarah Davey had some contact with her son and did register his birth

Reform UK has stood by its candidate, who is taking on Andy Burnham in Thursday’s crunch Makerfield by-election

The teenager denies charges of murder and manslaughter

HMRC has apologised for the error and hopes to fix the problem later this summer

The government has been under pressure to look again at the plan after John Healey quit

Jamie Varley, 37, adopted Preston Davey, at nine months old with his partner, John McGowan-Fazakerley, 32

In one of the biggest shocks of election night 2019, Labour lost the Stoke-on-Trent seat as the Red Wall collapsed amid a Boris Johnson pledge to get Brexit done. Seven years on Alex Ross discovers a city feeling even further left behind

The network, launched in 2020, is said to have 20,000 people on its mailing list

Our community is divided over the prime minister’s plan to ban social media for under-16s, with some backing tougher regulation to protect children online and others warning it is unworkable and risks setting a precedent for greater government control and digital surveillance

‘Labour members are not Corbynistas any more, many of them joined because of Keir’

Dorset Police have arrested a man on suspicion of firearms offences following the discovery in Suffolk Avenue, Christchurch

The court will now decide whether the sentence was unduly lenient

The mother claims she was left with ‘nothing’ after putting her home in her daughter’s name

Radwan Shakur, from Wembley, north-west London, was found with stab wounds at Central Park in Chelmsford

UK will follow Australia’s example in raising the minimum age to 16 for several social media sites including TikTok and Instagram

A 63-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving after a car drove through a fence

Our community is divided over the prime minister’s plan to ban social media for under-16s, with some backing tougher regulation to protect children online and others warning it is unworkable and risks setting a precedent for greater government control and digital surveillance

Some parents are over the moon about the under-16s social media ban. Like Charlotte Cripps, who finds arguments with her young daughters impossible and wonders if Keir Starmer could ban doom-scrolling adults next

Robert Jenrick, Reform’s Treasury spokesperson, said companies which employ foreign workers would have to pay higher national insurance and a new ‘migrant labour levy’

Temperatures could reach 29C by the end of this week in south-east England

The Michelin-starred restaurant Veeraswamy has been located on Regent’s Street for 100 years

The anonymous Russian speaker had offered Roman Lavrynovych £3,000 in cryptocurrency if the blazes were filmed and got on the news

Teenagers are reacting to the prime minister’s decision to ban them from social media from as early as next spring

Mr Burnham hopes to win Thursday’s Makerfield by-election and could then launch a campaign to replace Sir Keir as prime minister and Labour leader

Five judges gave their ruling after the Home Office appealed previous decision that Palestine Action ban was unlawful

UK will follow Australia’s example in raising the minimum age to 16 for several social media sites including TikTok and Instagram

Ellen Roome has been campaigning for online safety for children since her son, Jools Sweeney, died aged 14 in 2022

The former Manchester United player flew to the UK from South Korea, where he was playing for FC Seoul, to give evidence in his grandfather’s defence last April

YouTube and Snapchat have emerged as the two most popular online platforms for children aged between eight and 14

Themayor of London said the city had been subjected to a ‘relentless and unprecedented attack of lies and hatred’ on social media

US president Donald Trump said the agreement meant ‘oil will flow’ freely once again through the Strait of Hormuz, the vital shipping route out of the Persian Gulf

CCTV images from 2017 showed a jogger pushing a woman into the path of a bus

UK will follow Australia’s example in raising the minimum age to 16 for several social media sites including TikTok and Instagram

Individuals were seen carrying Palestinian and Israeli flags at the protest

Political editor David Maddox explains why the bold move by Sir Keir Starmer is a further sign of his weakness

HMRC has apologised for the error and hopes to fix the problem later this summer

Around eight in 10 UK children aged three to 17 are estimated to have at least one active social media profile

Platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and Facebook are set to be banned

The trio suffered a ‘catastrophic falling out’ after the mother’s divorce

The RAC Foundation, estimated that rises in pump prices since the conflict in the Middle East began on February 28 have led to motorists paying £3 billion more for diesel and just over £1 billion more for petrol

The Mayor of London said the city had been subjected to a ‘relentless and unprecedented attack of lies and hatred’ on social media