It comes as education unions have raised concerns about the statutory tests taken by Year 6 pupils in primary schools across England.

Seraphine struggled amid rising costs and a difficult backdrop for consumer spending, according to administrators.

Heidi Alexander said the Government would publish estimates in March for how long the schemes will take to deliver.

Tory former Cabinet minister Lord Norman Tebbit has died aged 94, his son said. The Conservative grandee was one of Margaret Thatcher’s closest political allies and played a key role in Tory politics ...

Ravinder Naga falsely confessed to stealing £35,000 as a result of the Horizon IT faults in a bid to save his mother from prosecution.

Lord Tebbit won sympathy across the political spectrum after surviving the Brighton bomb that killed five people and left his wife in a wheelchair.

Musician and producer Jordan Rakei recorded more than 50 sounds such as travellers’ footsteps, passports being stamped and aircraft engines.

As Conservative Party chairman, Norman Tebbit masterminded Margaret Thatcher’s third general election victory despite tensions with the PM.

The move came after the Pentagon announced last week that it would hold back delivering to Ukraine some air defence missiles and other weapons.

The US president also announced new tariff rates on Malaysia, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Laos, Myanmar and Tunisia.

The risk of life-threatening flooding was still high in central Texas on Monday as crews searched for the missing following a ...