Leaking details from a National Security Council (NSC) meeting is "utterly dysfunctional and destructive", Harriet Harman has said.

Epping Forest District Council has launched a legal challenge to a ruling against its plan to stop asylum seekers from being housed in a local hotel.

Tributes have been paid to a "deeply loved" young woman who was killed in a head-on collision during a police pursuit.

Shabana Mahmood has defended her plans for forced deportation of children under her new asylum rules.

Former Scotland rugby union captain Stuart Hogg has been stripped of his MBE, according to an official notice in The Gazette.

Britney Spears has spent the night in custody after being arrested.