The Government decision comes after experts recommended indefinite restrictions while work is done to ensure the safety of children and young people.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has formally set Germany on course for an early election by requesting a confidence vote in parliament next week.

Prisons in England and Wales will run out of space despite Government plans to build four more jails, the Justice Secretary admitted.

There was no evidence of police collusion in the original investigation into the 1978 La Mon House Hotel bombing, a report from the Police Ombudsman has said. The report also said there had been an ...