Rachel Reeves, the first woman to hold the role, will say there are no short cuts to driving the economic growth Labour has promised other than to invest.

The Government needs to establish strategies for individual industries to help reach national and global nature targets, WWF and Aviva have said..

The news has been confirmed ahead of Wednesdays Budget.

The teenager accused of the fatal stabbing of three girls at a dance class in Southport has been charged with production of a deadly poison and a terror offence, the chief constable of Merseyside Police has said..