It comes after the National Audit Office warned the Home Office had ‘historically underspent’ funding allocated to tackle the issue.

Police forces need to make decisions locally on how many officers to have, a minister has said after some warned of funding pressures. Policing minister Dame Diana Johnson said she was “not pretending ...

Efforts are continuing to free a whale which has become entangled in a rope at a fish farm off the Isle of Skye. A member of the public spotted the humpback in difficulty and contacted British Divers ...

Henrietta and Eliza Huszti, 32, vanished on January 7 in Aberdeen and were last seen near the River Dee at 2am.