A company has admitted it supplied water that was unfit for human consumption after a parasitic outbreak in Devon.

Epping Forest District Council (EFDC) has lost its latest bid to stop housing asylum seekers at the Bell Hotel in Epping.

Nottingham triple killer Valdo Calocane repeatedly hit a police officer in the face less than two years before his deadly knife attacks, an inquiry has heard.

Middle-income earners will be hardest hit by a freeze to the student loan repayment threshold, experts have said.

The 7am wake-up call on Stanley Road in Liverpool came courtesy of the screech of a police angle-grinder and a shower of sparks.

Donald Trump's offer of US-backed insurance and naval escorts for shipping travelling through the Strait of Hormuz has not prevented maritime premiums soaring as underwriters scramble to reassess the risks to oil, gas and cargo vessels.