It's a desperate measure to avoid living next to Travellers - but Sky News has learned of at least one community which clubbed together to buy land, fearing unwelcome neighbours were about to move in.

The parents and grandparents of 16 children found living in a "disgusting" home with "signs of human faeces" have appeared at a US court via videolink.

A teenager has drowned during a Duke of Edinburgh's Award trip in Wales.

A father killed his four-week-old baby by shaking him in a moment of "pure violence", a court has heard.

At least 59 people have been killed in flooding in Ivory Coast, according to a government spokesman,

A yellow heat health alert has been issued for large parts of the UK later this week - as the Met Office said it was provisionally the hottest June on record in England.