Leader announces tax cut plan for England and Northern Ireland in speech aimed at boosting fiscal credibility

Julia Wandelt, 24, insisted to be Madeleine, who went missing in Portugal in 2007, while stalking the missing girl’s parents by sending emails, calling them and turning up at their address, prosecutors allege.

Julia Wandelt – who is on trial alongside Karen Spragg – is accused of stalking the McCanns for almost three years, allegedly turning up at their family home and sending letters to Kate.

Jihad al Shamie, 35, carried out the attack last Thursday as he tried to get inside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Crumpsall.

Whether or not Starmer’s government is to blame for the collapse of a case against accused agents of a foreign power, a softer line is clearly being taken by the British state – storing up danger for later, writes Michael Sheridan

Comey is accused of lying to Congress and obstruction over 2020 testimony

Budding architect Stephen Lawrence was just 18 years old when he was knifed to death in an unprovoked racist attack at a bus stop in south-east London on April 22, 1993

The aides left while the Prime Minister is currently in India

The group exchanged with Israel a list of prisoners for release, in exchange for the remaining Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip.

Nicolette Goldrick, 51, was jailed after she attempted to abduct a baby in a pram outside a shop, before her mum and a member of the public swooped in to save her

Mohammed Shabir, 45, of Alice Street, Keighley, was on remand at HMP Leeds when he collapsed, an inquest has heard.

Iris Stalzer, 57, was believed to have been stabbed by several men on Tuesday but the mayor of Herbedecke is now understood to have told police her adopted daughter, 17, is a suspect

James McAlpine attracted plenty of attention at the Conservative Party Conference this week.

Ambulances, police and fire crews have rushed to the scene at Westminster Bridge which has been cordoned off

The vacant office block at 130 Fenchurch Street, known as Fountain House, will be demolished to make way for two new high-rise towers at a cost of £300 million

Antonis Antoniadis, 26, was targeted and followed upon leaving 32 Portland Place nightclub, in Marylebone

Former soldier Christopher Mills, 48, was planning a holiday with wife Michelle, 46, when her lover Geraint Berry allegedly teamed up with friend Steven Thomas for a murder attempt, a court heard.

German special forces have rushed to the scene at Westfalenkolleg, a vocational school in Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, after an attack alert

Mum-of-six and grandmother-of-five Jackie Rutter, 53, died after being shot dead inside her home on the Wirral in Merseyside. Four men are standing trial accused of her murder

Donald Trump’s approval rating has plummeted, with a majority of Americans also opposing the deployment of the National Guard to US cities.

Sir John Curtice suggested Reform UK could soon see an uptick in donations

Prime Minister, this is your chance to stand up for Britain, British jobs and British industry, writes the former Conservative MP

Kate McCann, the mother of Madeleine McCann, has told the court of the moment her alleged stalker showed up at her home – claiming to be her missing daughter. Julia Wandelt is one of two women on trial accused of stalking the McCann family. Follow the latest from court.

The party says it would scrap the “bad tax” on primary home purchases in England and Northern Ireland if elected.

PM says Labour will address suggestions of antisemitic hate as he orders review of protest policing powers

PM says Jenrick is ‘still running his leadership campaign’ after he complained about ‘not seeing another white face’

MPs are furious about the charges against two men being dropped.

The Tory leader is unlikely to still be in post this time next year.

One witness said: ‘Children were completely torn apart’

“Stamp duty is a bad tax, it is an un-conservative tax,” the Tory leader said.

Prime minister’s comments come after students across the country defied his calls and took part in pro-Gaza marches

‘Reparatory justice’ over the transatlantic slave trade is anything but straightforward, writes columnist Rakib Ehsan

A construction worker at the building site that collapsed described how ‘the sun disappeared’ in a massive dust cloud when the six-storey structure came crashing down

Malgorzata Wnuczek, from Poland, was 27 when she disappeared on 31 May 2006 in Leicester.

THE MANCHESTER synagogue killer made a 999 call after his attack, saying: “I have killed two Jews in the name of the Islamic State.” Terrorist Jihad al-Shamie, 35, told a police operator he was res…

A survivor of the October 7 attack said the BBC has shown a lack of ‘respect’

The threat of Trump tariffs means that the UK will need to pay US pharmaceutical companies more money

Newly-elected mayor Iris Stalzer was said to be ‘in and out of consciousness’ after being stabbed in the back and stomach multiple times, with her son and daughter being arrested on suspicion

As the shadow justice secretary stands by his comments calling the UK’s second city the closest thing in this country to a slum, proud Brummie Shazia Mirza – who went to a local Catholic school, despite being Muslim – says she finds that hard to believe

Derek Brown, 64, was sentenced to a minimum term of 30 years in 2008 after he was found guilty of murdering DVD seller Xiao Mei Guo, 29, and prostitute Bonnie Barrett, 24

Married dad Keith Gough from Shropshire lived a normal life before winning £9million on the National Lottery back in 2005. Tragically, he was dead just five years later

The Museum of Homelessness said its research suggested at least 1,611 deaths in 2024 of people experiencing homelessness

Around 13 million people who were eligible for a booster last autumn can no longer get it for free

Troops from Texas have been sent on a controversial mission to support President Trump’s immigration crackdown.

Several people were allegedly attacked at a Belfast train station by two suspects who are said to have left the scene. Police are eager to speak to one individual they say was injured

Emergency services were called to the mosque in Phyllis Avenue, Peacehaven, at about 9.50pm on Saturday.

Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Harris confirmed that overnight another flotilla was intercepted by Israel

More than 3,000 flights have been delayed, according to flight tracking data, as staffing shortages have affected a growing number of airports, including Houston, Nashville, Dallas, Chicago O’Hare and Newark.

First Minister John Swinney warned of a ‘rightward shift’ in the UK.

To prove the case under the Official Secrets Act, prosecutors would have had to show the defendants were acting for an ‘enemy’