Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a £15bn package of cost of living support including a £400 discount on energy bills for all and a £650 one-off payment to the poorest eight million households.

The Metropolitan Police acted with "integrity" during its partygate investigation and officers made decisions "based on the facts and were proper", the force's acting commissioner has said.

BBC Four and CBBC will no longer be aired as traditional broadcast channels after the next few years as part of the corporation's plans to become "digital first".

Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey has been charged with four counts of sexual assault against three men, the UK's Crown Prosecution Service has said.

The council that admitted it failed to prevent the murder of toddler Star Hobson has a serious staff retention problem in its children's services, according to data uncovered by a Sky News freedom of information request.

Claudia Webbe MP has lost her court appeal against her conviction for harassing a love rival.

EasyJet has cancelled 200 flights after being hit by IT problems and advised customers to check their booking before going to the airport.

The chancellor may claim that a 'temporary Energy Profits Levy' is not a windfall tax but, as the popular saying goes, if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and waddles like a duck, then it probably is a duck.

A scaffolder who was "dead for around two minutes" after being electrocuted and set on fire while collecting scrap metal from an abandoned steelworks is urging young people not to turn to crime in hard times.

A British toddler has drowned in a swimming pool in Spain's Costa Blanca, despite efforts by a neighbour to save his life.