Bridget Phillipson said a Tory amendment to the schools Bill is unnecessary as she defended removing automatic academisation of failing schools.

A panel in the case of a Metropolitan police officer who is alleged to have used the term ‘cotton pickers’ has retired to consider its verdict.

Bradford and Walsall are working with police to identify a social media user over a post which referred to the fire at Valley Parade which claimed the lives of 56 people. Police were called in over a ...

A traffic incident on the A34 north of Oxford is causing severe delays for drivers heading towards the M40 Junction 9.

A man from the Cotswolds area has been charged with driving while five times the limit for cocaine after an incident in Oxford.