Russia is intent on causing “mayhem” on UK streets, and Iranian-backed plots posing “lethal threats” to British people are ramping up at an “unprecedented pace and scale”, the boss of MI5 warned.

Around 5.8 million social media users have viewed Bridget Phillipson’s post about VAT on independent school fees.

The Scottish First Minister John Swinney hit out at the UK Government ‘damaging’ decision to means-test the benefit.

Tim Wafer was giving evidence to the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry on the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow.

Dr Jim McCormack was said to have made the remark two years before Letby was eventually arrested, the inquiry at Liverpool Town Hall heard.

Sergio Garcia is considering rejoining the DP World Tour in order to be eligible for next year’s Ryder Cup, according to Europe captain Luke Donald.

Difference of ideas, or ways of expressing them, is ‘increasingly seen as a threat’, the vice-chancellor has suggested.

A trainee police officer who had spoken about depression and suicide was left waiting months for work occupational health appointments before being found dead, an inquest heard.

Four children were hurt when a double-decker bus crashed and ended up on its side in a rural road in Co Down on Monday.

The jury in the trial of a schoolgirl accused of attempting to murder two teachers and another pupil at a school in South Wales has been sent home for the day.