March 2026

HS2 trains could run at slower speeds than originally planned as part of a drive to keep the costs of the major rail project down. Reducing the controversial high-speed rail’s top speed from its planned 360kph (223mph) could save “billions and bring the railway into service sooner,” Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander said. In a written […]

Councils are ignoring explicit instructions to approve planning projects from ministers – as the scale and cost of their resistance to development is revealed for the first time. It comes as tensions between councils of all political stripes are rising with ministers, who are desperate to hit their target of 1.5 million new homes in

Police are investigating whether an Islamist group with possible links to Iran is behind an arson attack on a Jewish ambulance service in north London. Four ambulances were destroyed in the blaze following a “loud explosion” that erupted at 1.40am on Monday at the base for volunteer group Hatzola in Golders Green. Metropolitan Police said

It is “outrageous” that a convicted fraudster tracked down by Sky News in Tenerife is still on the run, the Speaker of the House of Commons has said. Pamela Gwinnett isolated 89-year-old Joan Green from her family during the COVID-19 pandemic, convinced Joan to give her lasting power of attorney, then raided her life savings.

A Nazi-obsessed teenager who launched a far-right axe attack on a random stranger has pleaded guilty to attempted murder. Alina Burns, then aged 18, attacked Mohammed Mahmoodi, an Iranian Kurd, outside a barber’s shop in Bedminster, Bristol, on 2 August last year as he was chatting with a friend. CCTV from inside the shop showed