The reason Andy Burnham may already be repeating Keir Starmer’s biggest mistake

Nominations to replace Keir Starmer won’t even begin until 9 July – but just days after being sworn in, Burnham may already showing some red flags, warn Helen MacNamara and Cleo Watson. Reported by Athena Stavrou and Maja Anushka

Eyebrows were raised when the Welsh area of Blaenau Gwent, despite receiving huge swathes of EU funding, voted to leave the bloc 10 years ago. Alex Ross visits the area’s largest town of Ebbw Vale, and discovers a more complicated picture

The next heatwave could come in less than two week, forecasters say

Louise Haigh has been tipped to take up a top job in Andy Burnham’s cabinet

Recent YouGov poll found almost half of Britons believe there should be a general election

The 11-year-old’s leg was ‘pretty firmly wedged’ after she slipped scrambling over the rocks

Temperatures will return to June averages next week following record-breaking heat

Sir Simon Hughes’ intervention follows the Lib Dems admitting to breaching the human rights of former BBC journalist David Campanale in allowing him to be deselected for being a Christian

The Vagrancy Act, originally introduced in 1824 for the punishment of ‘idle and disorderly persons, and rogues and vagabonds’

Thomas-Symonds has remained loyal to Sir Keir amid turmoil at the top of Government

It is understood that the royal has concerns for his family’s safety after learning no taxpayer-funded security will be provided

As PC Lydia Ward’s attacker is jailed, she looks back on the incident

The new Defence Secretary, Dan Jarvis, is credited with refocusing the Defence Investment Plan (DIP) since his appointment

The Met Police said the car involved did not stop at the scene in Ealing, west London

Experts warn deadly heatwave is not a ‘one off’ and call for a ‘systemic, nationwide response’ to rising temperatures that will keep happening ‘again and again’

Surrey Police previously said they believed it happened ‘within a family setting’

There have been widespread warnings about the dangers of trying to cool off with a swim in the sea, lake or river

There has been mounting speculation that the MP for Makerfield could call a general election in a bid to dispel accusations that he doesn’t have a mandate to lead

LGBTQ+ people between the ages of 18 to 25 are four times more likely to face homelessness

A high of 37.3C was recorded in Santon Downham, Suffolk, on Friday

LGBTQ+ people between the ages of 18 to 25 are four times more likely to face homelessness

Widespread warnings about the dangers of swimming in open water

The visit will be the first time the family has travelled to the UK in four years

Extreme heat is forecast into the weekend with red warnings issued across parts of England and Wales

The party plans to use some of the money saved by reintroducing the two-child benefit cap to remove taxes on up to 30 days of reserve service per year

Britain also made £2 million of humanitarian funding available to help respond to the disaster

Downing Street issued a rebuke to both Ms Mahmood and Mr Tapp

Dr David Bull said he was speaking as a ‘friend and a colleague’

Foxes and other wildlife can easily become entangled in nets, which can cause stress and severe injuries

Rossi, 38, had been serving a jail sentence in Utah for raping two women in the state in 2008