#BreakingNews Mike Amesbury has written to Chancellor Rachel Reeves formally resigning as the MP for Runcorn & Helsby, after he was handed a suspended prison sentence for punching a man in the street

#BreakingNews Downing Street has welcomed “the progress President Trump has made towards a ceasefire” following his call with Vladimir Putin, but insisted negotiations must lead to a “just and lasting peace for Ukraine”

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#BreakingNews Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has ordered the National Energy System Operator to “urgently investigate” the power outage caused by a substation fire that shut Heathrow airport on Friday

#BreakingNews Former footballer Joey Barton, 42, has been found guilty at Westminster Magistrates’ Court of assaulting his wife at their family home in south-west London in June 2021

#BreakingNews Environmental campaign group Just Stop Oil said it is to cease direct action, with a final protest in Parliament Square on April 26

#BreakingNews The King has been seen in public for the first time since a hospital visit for side effects from his cancer treatment, as he waved at well-wishers while leaving Clarence House in London in a car this morning

#BreakingNews Birmingham City Council has declared a major incident over the bin strike and said that picket lines blocking its depots are preventing waste vehicles from collecting rubbish

#BreakingNews The Sentencing Council said it has chosen to “delay” the implementation of new sentencing guidelines after Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced plans to introduce legislation to block the changes

#BreakingNews A man has been shot dead by police who were responding to reports of a person carrying a firearm at Milton Keynes railway station this afternoon, Thames Valley Police said

#BreakingNews An 11-year-old girl who is missing after she entered the River Thames on Monday has been named by the Metropolitan Police as Kaliyah Coa

Paramedics and other ambulance crew members have faced a record number of “violent assaults”, ambulance chiefs have warned ✍️: Ella Pickover independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Here is an updated list of estimated declaration times for the local council elections taking place on Thursday May 1 ✍️: Matthew George standard.co.uk/news/politics/…

#BreakingNews Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP Patrick Spencer has been charged with two counts of sexual assault which allegedly happened at central London’s Groucho Club in August 2023, the Metropolitan Police said

#BreakingNews Two firefighters and a member of the public have died and two firefighters are seriously injured after a fire at a former RAF base in Bicester, Oxfordshire County Council said

#BreakingNews Liam O’Hanna, who performs with the rap trio Kneecap under the stage name Mo Chara, has been charged with a terrorism offence relating to displaying a flag in support of Hezbollah at a gig in London last November, the Metropolitan Police said

#BreakingNews Sir Keir Starmer has signed a deal with Mauritius to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands that will cost £101 million per year

#BreakingNews A police officer in a critical condition in hospital after being hit by a car while on duty in Buckinghamshire has been named by Thames Valley Police as Pc Christopher Miller

#BreakingNews Zia Yusuf has resigned as chairman of Reform UK, saying in a post on X working to get the party elected is no longer “a good use of my time”

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