Andrew Misra , Reporter

One headache Sir Keir Starmer wasn’t anticipating was the shocking footage which emerged over the weekend of a Labour MP appearing to punch someone to the ground before hitting him repeatedly.

The wife of a Conservative councillor has been jailed for 31 months for inciting racial hatred on social media on the day of the Southport knife attacks.

The new England manager Thomas Tuchel has said he wants to make the side’s World Cup dream come true as soon as possible.

Research shows the average 12-year-old in the UK spends 21 hours a week on their smartphone, the equivalent to a part time job.

It’s forty years since thousands of miners were on an all-out strike against Margaret Thatcher’s plans to shut down 20 coal mines – the biggest industrial action since the Second World War.

On average, wildlife populations have declined by nearly three quarters – 73% – over the 50 years to 2020. The main causes include human-driven habitat loss, pollution and climate change.

We’re at the Tory conference in Birmingham.

The Conservative Party is gathering for its first conference in opposition for 14 years.

It’s not even three months since Labour won the general election and – for the first time ever – all 15 seats in Merseyside. So just how popular is the new Prime Minister in this city?

Three years ago, this programme revealed how dozens of mothers and babies came to harm in maternity units across Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. An independent review was launched – led by senior midwife Donna Ockenden – looking into nearly 2,000 cases. 

The decision to approve the UK’s first new deep coal mine in thirty years has been quashed in the High Court. Plans for the mine in Cumbria were approved by the Conservative government in 2022.

In just over 100 days, Bradford will become the UK’s City of Culture – the fourth to hold the title after Londonderry, Hull and Coventry.

The political row escalated in July when seven Labour MPs had the whip suspended after they rebelled and voted for an SNP amendment to the King’s Speech, calling for the two-child limit to be scrapped.

Hundreds of people lined the streets of Southport today for the funeral of seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe – one of the three girls killed at a dance class last month.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 29-year-old woman and her three young children died in a house fire in Bradford. Police say they believe the fire was started deliberately.