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A volunteer Metropolitan Police officer has been found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting a child..

Sir Keir Starmer has condemned the “senseless” Russian strikes on Ukraine overnight that killed more than a dozen people and caused damage to a British Council building in Kyiv..

Not a single childhood vaccine in England last year met the target needed to ensure diseases cannot spread among youngsters, according to new figures..

Sir Ed Davey will boycott US President Donald Trump’s state banquet next month in a protest against his position on Gaza..

Government funding for a programme which offers children from low-income families free meals and activities during the school holidays will be extended..

The Government could close asylum hotels next year by allowing people from certain countries likely to be recognised as refugees temporary permission to stay under a “one-off scheme”, analysis by the Refugee Council has suggested..

Pollution from the “huge” pig and poultry farming sectors is harming rivers, the wider landscape and nature, a report from the Wildlife Trusts warns..

More than 280,000 crimes went unrecorded by police last year, with “unacceptably low” numbers of anti-social behaviour offences being officially documented..