Paul McNamara , Policy Correspondent

Owning a home is getting more expensive as lenders begin putting up mortgage rates, spooked by stubbornly high inflation figures.

Gas and electricity bills for the average household will go down to just over two thousand pounds a year after the energy regulator Ofgem dropped its price cap.

A shortage of prison wardens in England and Wales is leaving many inmates locked in their cells for more than 22 hours in the 24 hour day- with an increasing risk they will re-offend.

Any train travel plans on the Second of June? You might want to scrap them. Because an estimated 20,000 rail workers including caterers, station staff and train managers are to stage another strike that day, in the long-running dispute over pay and conditions.

The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has arrived in Iceland for a Council of Europe summit where he’s been pushing for closer coordination to deal with illegal migrants.

We’ve been out and about in Derbyshire where a swathe of councils were up for grabs – and the results have echoed the picture across the country – one of Labour gains and Tory losses.

They make more CCTV cameras than any other company in the world, and their products have been used by the Chinese government in the suppression of Uighurs in China. Britain’s use of Hikvision technology doesn’t just make human rights campaigners queasy. It’s also concerning for national security experts, who warn of the dangers of outsourcing…

Richard Sharp is stepping down as BBC chairman – after a report found he had failed to disclose his involvement in arranging an £800,000 loan for Boris Johnson – at the very time he was being appointed to the job. Mr Sharp insisted his breach of the rules had been “inadvertent, not material” – but…

On a day where the government was keen to claim credit for helping people escape the fighting in Sudan, it insisted that its highly controversial illegal migration bill was compassionate.

The Royal Family reached a “secret agreement” with the owners of The Sun newspaper to stop Prince William and Prince Harry bringing phone hacking claims, Prince Harry has told the High Court. The Duke of Sussex is suing News Group Newspapers over alleged unlawful information gathering. They’ve denied there was any such agreement.

From Nat West to John Lewis, more leading British companies have decided to leave the CBI after the Guardian published a second allegation from a former staff member, who said she was raped by two colleagues.

The prime minister isn’t only having to decide on Dominic Raab’s future.

Rishi Sunak has been trying to head off rebellions from the Conservative back benches in Westminster.

The government has confirmed it plans to house 500 male asylum seekers onto a barge moored off the Dorset Coast – in an attempt to reduce the cost of hotels. The Home Office said the Bibby Stockholm – which will now be towed  from southern Italy to Portland port – will provide “basic and functional”…

With the government struggling to keep many public sector workers off the picket line, worrying new evidence has emerged of collapsing morale among teachers in England.