A keen amateur dancer is taking legal action, after he was banned from an event and told his wheelchair would damage the dance floor.
The Liberal Democrats claim they’re “closing the gap” on sitting MP Zac Goldsmith in the Richmond by-election. The former Conservative MP triggered the vote over his opposition to the Government’s Heathrow expansion plans.
With temperatures tonight falling as low as minus nine, campaigners are warning that four million households in Britain are still struggling to afford heating, causing illness, anxiety and affecting their chances throughout life.
British companies have been told they’ll have to justify levels of executive pay, under new consultation plans unveiled by the Business Secretary Greg Clark.
The former football coach Barry Bennell has tonight been charged with eight child sex offences against a young boy allegedly dating back more than 30 years.
Interview with Jan Egeland, from the UN’s taskforce on humanitarian access in Syria.
Twenty thousand flee the mayhem of east Aleppo, leaving the uncollected body bags of those killed whilst trying to escape.
Simon Israel
Suicides double in five years, five ambulance calls out a day to a prison in Bristol because of drug use, and a sixth death in one London prison alone in the past year. And if it couldn’t get any worse it does. Today, yet another damning report by the prison inspectorate into a failing prison which will test Liz Truss’s resolve on how quickly she can respond.
Interview with Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott.
The outgoing Ukip leader claims to have refashioned the politics of the centre right after Brexit. Now the party’s new leader says he wants to wipe Labour off the electoral map.
The paedophile football coach Barry Bennell is in hospital tonight after he was found unconscious in his hotel on Friday night.
Liam Dutton
The latest long-range winter forecast from the Met Office suggests colder weather is more likely than normal this winter, but how much snow will there be?
Cuba has declared nine days of mourning for Fidel Castro. The revolutionary leader seized power in Cuba 57 years ago and soon found his communist instincts in collision with his giant US neighbour. And while Barack Obama said today that America extended the hand of friendship to the Cuban people, President-elect Trump dismissed Castro as…
Senior judges have ordered the independent police watchdog to re-investigate the police Taser death of a factory worker in Manchester. In the first ruling of its kind, the High Court quashed the IPCC’s original inquiry into the death of Jordon Begley in 2013, which cleared any officer of blame.
Pro-Brexit Tories have rounded on Sir John Major for suggesting a second referendum on Britain’s departure from the EU would be perfectly credible.The former PM said the Brexit process shouldn’t be subjected to the “tyranny of the majority”, sparking anger among Eurosceptics.
