Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said guilty defendants avoiding court was a ‘final insult to victims and their families’.

Mr Reed confirmed the proposals had been dropped during an Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Efra) committee session with MPs on Tuesday.

The club are working with Merseyside Police to identify those reponsible for ‘racist and misogynistic’ posts aimed at Sandra Calvert-Lewin.

Flight attendants in Spain have been told to hand back five months’ worth of salary increases after a row between the airline and a union.

The consultation period was extended from two weeks to six ‘in light of the level of public interest’, the Equality and Human Rights ...

William and Kate are named in the Innovators category where they are hailed by the US publication for modernising royal philanthropy. The Time100 Philanthropy 2025 is described as “the 100 most ...

Just over a fifth of shareholder votes backed proposals for more disclosure on how increasing LNG production meets Shell’s ...

A 17-year-old youth has appeared in court charged with murdering teenager Kayden Moy during an attack on a beach. Kayden, 16, was attacked on Saturday on Irvine beach, North Ayrshire, and died in ...

The entrance to a village will be closed off for months due to sewer upgrade works. A section of Water Lane near the junction with High Street is shut in Angmering while Southern Water carries out ...

The Government has pledged to prioritise any bid for compensation by a man who spent 38 years in prison after wrongly being convicted of murder. Speaking in Parliament, justice minister Lord Ponsonby ...

The Foreign Secretary has been “begged” to “save children’s lives” in Gaza as MPs from across the Commons urged him to refer to Israel’s actions in the region as a “genocide”. David Lammy announced ...

Billionaire Elon Musk has said he is committed to being chief executive of Tesla in five years’ time as the carmaker faced intense consumer and stock price pressure over his work with US President ...