Reform UK councillor charged with 35 offences against four victims - including 12 counts of rape

One in ten children are obese by the time they start primary school, damning figures reveal, with obesity among four-year-olds at its highest level in two decades, outside the pandemic.

The King has said the slave trade “fills my heart with horror” during a speech to Commonwealth leaders at a summit in the Caribbean, where the UK has faced mounting demands to pay reparations for its role in the slave trade.

In his address to presidents and prime ministers of the Commonwealth Charles said the transatlantic slave trade fills his heart with horror.

MI5 and its director-general have avoided legal action after the Security Service "fell badly short" by providing false evidence to three courts.