Outgoing BBC director-general Tim Davie has told staff the corporation has to “stand up for our journalism”, insisting it will control its own narrative which “will not just be given by our enemies”..

Asylum seekers can continue to be housed in the Bell Hotel in Essex after Epping Forest District Council failed to secure a High Court injunction that would block them from living there..

Author David Szalay has become the first Hungarian-British author to win the Booker Prize..

More than 2,700 high street businesses including barbers, minimarts and vape shops have been raided in the biggest ever crackdown of its kind on money laundering..