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Steve Witkoff arrived in St Petersburg on Wednesday to meet Vladimir Putin, a day after 'constructive' talks with Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Oslo — as Trump presses Kyiv to settle and Europe watches nervously.
Camborne and Redruth MP Perran Moon referred himself for investigation over a £50,000 Bounce Back Loan at his firm Autoswot — the second Labour MP suspended over a Covid loan.
Chancellor John Healey has rejected calls to raise capital gains tax at the October 28 Budget, opting for a bank levy instead — and a 'steady as she goes' approach his own cabinet critics hate.
Burnham's new Private Parking Code: £20 cap for honest mistakes, grace periods, £100 max charge frozen — after a record 16.9m tickets.
Andy Burnham announced on 19 October that blasting music or videos on buses in England could mean a £100 fine under new guidance, alongside a rail campaign telling passengers to “share the carriage, not the noise”. Enforcement falls to transport officers and police — not drivers.
160 Northern Ireland schools received bomb-threat emails on Monday morning, all treated as non-viable, while Police Scotland investigated a parallel wave of hoax threats to Scottish schools the same morning.
Hundreds of British troops will join 1,500 French, German and Polish personnel in Poland next month to rehearse a post-ceasefire deployment to Ukraine — the first exercise of its kind, announced by Wes Streeting in Washington as Trump splits with Europe on Russia.
The Metropolitan Police will take no action against Sarah Helm, wife of national security adviser Jonathan Powell, ruling her X post about Palestine Action "did not meet the criminal threshold" — but the wider row over the proscribed group, 3,700 arrests and a looming Supreme Court challenge is far from over.
Sir Richard Branson accused Donald Trump of cosying up to Vladimir Putin as the president's feud with Volodymyr Zelenskyy exploded — while Zelenskyy answered questions about being scapegoated with a smile.