Andy Burnham will chair a meeting of the Government’s emergency Cobra committee on Wednesday in response to extreme heat, which has caused widespread wildfires and plunged many parts of the country into drought.. Read More...
Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini singer Brian Hyland will perform his 1960 classic hit in Downing Street as he backs a campaign for better NHS diagnoses.. Read More...
The UK’s largest Harry Potter shop is to open in London’s Oxford Street in November, Warner Bros has announced.. Read More...
The UK is on course for its hottest summer on record, with only average conditions needed for the rest of August to beat the record set just last year, the Met Office said.. Read More...
Firefighters are beginning a third day of tackling a fire in the New Forest which they say they are “managing to contain” after working “tirelessly” through the night.. Read More...
A man who attended hospital with a gunshot wound has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 25-year-old was shot dead near a pub.. Read More...
August is the worst month of the year for drink-drive crashes as summer events create “more opportunities” to get behind the wheel after consuming alcohol, according to new research.. Read More...
Pc Andrew Harper’s killers will not walk free early after Prime Minister Andy Burnham urged the Justice Secretary to “work through further options” to stop their release, a minister has suggested.. Read More...
Heat health alerts are to come into force as the UK braces for the fifth heatwave of the year, with almost three-quarters of England in drought.. Read More...
Andy Burnham has pledged to give councils more powers to block new bookmakers and vape shops in a bid to save Britain’s “hollowed-out high streets”.. Read More...