How Labour drove Birmingham to bankruptcy: GUY ADAMS investigates how a toxic combination of ineptitude and extreme political dysfunction saw Britain’s biggest council go bust – all under the watch of a leader handpicked by Keir Starmer Every schoolday, a driver pulls up outside a home near Castle Bromwich on the eastern outskirts of Birmingham, […]

Rishi Sunak vows he is ‘fired up’ for the next election as he bids to stave off doom mongering in the Tory party on his trip to the G20 summit and bids to seal a post-Brexit free trade deal with India Prime Minister says he is ‘entirely confident’ he could win the next election  Rishi […]

ANDREW NEIL: Two decades after 9/11 Condoleezza Rice says the War on Terror has been won… and I think she’s right Monday will be the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and, despite the passage of time, most of us will instantly remember where we were on that fateful day when the dreadful news […]

THE crumbling concrete that has shut down schools across Britain has been discovered at Heathrow and Gatwick. Airport bosses say they were aware of the presence of RAAC before the schools crisis engulfing Rishi Sunak kicked off last week. RAAC was first found at Heathrow Airport Terminal 3 last year. Temporary safety precautions were put […]

Eurotunnel lockdown sparks chaos with holidaymakers stuck in gridlock as Army explosives experts probe ‘security issue’ – but officials insist it is not related to escaped prisoner READ MORE: Daniel Abed Khalife prison escape LIVE  Drivers were stranded outside the Channel Tunnel for hours today as explosive experts were called after a ‘suspicious vehicle’ was […]

How Queen Elizabeth marked the first anniversary of the death of her father King George VI: Young monarch attended private holy communion service at Sandringham parish church as wreaths were placed on his tomb in St George’s Chapel The Queen attended Holy Communion service at Sandringham Parish Church King George passed away while suffering from […]

Couple are left £52,000 out of pocket claiming ‘rogue traders’ took the money as payment for their ‘dream kitchen’ but left the project ‘less than 20 per cent complete’ Jismon Varghese said he and his wife have been ‘left with nothing’ after ‘scam’ A couple claim they have been left £52,000 out of pocket and without […]

TWO children and a woman were injured after a car ploughed into pedestrians outside a school. Police were scrambled to Redhill in Surrey just before 9am today after the silver Honda Jazz collided with three people. A six-year-old girl and a 75-year-old woman were rushed to hospital for treatement. An eight-year-old boy was given medical […]

ONE person is dead and five are injured after a car crashed into a tram stop. Three people were hit before the car crashed into others on the corner of Bourke and Russell Streets in Melbourne on Friday night. The crash involved a white Ford and white Kia, according to reports, and a driver was […]

Akshata Murty will lead Rishi Sunak’s charm offensive in India: How ‘Britain’s Jackie O’ will be deployed to woo world leaders in country where her family is better known than Britain’s PM Ms Murty helped her husband greet dignitaries after arriving in Delhi today The businesswoman beamed in a floral ankle-length skirt and white shirt  […]