A lack of funding for children with special educational needs in schools has led to a “full-blown crisis” and is harming provision for pupils, a union has warned. Nearly all school leaders (99%) ...

Rishi Sunak may yet quell a Tory rebellion amid a consolation win in the Tees Valley and hopes for the West Midlands mayoral contest, despite suffering a drubbing in the first day of local election ...

Greg Dewhurst, from the Met Office, said there would be ‘plenty of sunshine around, but it will become cloudier the further north you are’.

Second-placed Jamie Driscoll had quit Labour after he was barred from standing as the party’s candidate in the North East.

Richard Holden admitted it had been a disappointing night for his party, but insisted the widespread losses are ‘typical for a Government ...

The Government acted unlawfully by approving a strategy to meet the UK’s climate targets, a High Court judge has ruled. Environmental charities Friends of the Earth and ClientEarth, and the Good Law ...

The Tories held Broxbourne while Labour held Sunderland, but elsewhere in the north-east they lost wards to independents in South Tyneside – where there have been problems with bin collections – and ...

Counting has been under way for the council and police & crime commissioner (PCC) elections that took place in England and Wales on Thursday. Most of the results are now in, but some are due to ...

The Labour leader hailed his party’s win in the York and North Yorkshire mayoral election, in an area he called ‘the heart of Tory territory’.

An offer from the Prime Minister to Ireland to join the Rwanda scheme features among a variety of stories on the nation’s front pages on Friday. The Telegraph says Rishi Sunak is set to offer Ireland ...

Norwich are currently fifth, a point ahead of West Brom but with an inferior goal difference of four. Hull are seventh, three points behind Norwich and two behind West Brom, but their goal difference ...

Community, the GMB and Unite said that the company was ‘completely disregarding’ the impact of its plans on workers and local communities.