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A boy with profound learning disabilities has reached an out of court settlement after he was abused in a residential school in Bristol.

It powered the industrial revolution and heated millions of homes – but coal has also fuelled the climate crisis – while also leaving behind a vast network of flooded, unused mines.

Two men have appeared in court over the felling of the Sycamore Gap tree, next to Hadrian’s Wall in rural Northumberland – with damage estimated at £620,000.

Labour’s last prime minister, Gordon Brown, has warned that food banks are increasingly taking over from the welfare state and called for urgent action by the current government.

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown says millions of British children have only known life in poverty – and he’s called for a government rescue plan to help them.

We spoke to Conservative MP and chair of the Justice Select Committee, Sir Bob Neill.

Prisons in England are now so full that people newly charged by the police are having their court appearances delayed because there might not be a cell available if they’re sent to jail awaiting trial.

We’re joined by Donna Ockenden who is chairing the review into maternity services at Nottingham University Hospitals, and in the studio is Lauren Caulfield whose baby Grace was stillborn at Leeds General Infirmary two years ago.

Rishi Sunak has warned that the UK faces the most dangerous few years it has ever known, under the threat from authoritarian states like Russia and China.

The comedian Ben Elton says he’s spent his 45-year career “exploring the outer limits of human idiocy.” Best known for his work on Blackadder and the Young Ones, as well as writing musicals and novels, will tour this summer with a new standup show he’s called ‘Authentic Stupidity’.

If you stepped outside late last night you may have witnessed a rare and spectacular display. Auroras – bands of pink and green light across the night sky – which are normally only seen close to the poles. But because of an extreme solar storm, last night the Northern Lights were spotted right through the…

The Labour Party has confirmed it will abandon the government’s scheme to send failed asylum seekers to Rwanda.

It’s official: the UK is no longer in recession.

It’s a challenge faced by families up and down the country – finding a school that provides support for children with additional needs.

University leaders were summoned to Downing Street today for talks on how to protect Jewish staff and students, amid growing anger over Israel’s war in Gaza.