David Chick, 58, of Bozeat, Northamptonshire, is accused of damaging the Grade-II listed statue in Portland Place, central London on May 20 2023.

A former scout leader and school housemaster has been found guilty of numerous sexual offences against young boys after spending 27 years on the run using a stolen identity.

Steven Hunter, who was given six months to live last November, said seeing Newcastle United lift the trophy was ‘just the pinnacle’.

Plastic pellets which can be a risk to wildlife have washed up on shore following the collision between a tanker and a container ship in the North Sea, the coastguard has said.

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the administration could not think of a better guest to invite on St Patrick’s Day.

The UK is having “pragmatic” discussions with the US on trade, Number 10 has said, after Donald Trump said that there would be no exemptions to metal tariffs.

The UK’s largest supermarket group revealed on Monday that it will invest £180 million in relation to the pay increase.

She also awarded long service and good conduct medals to two soldiers during a ceremony in the officers’ mess.

The former Labour MP was given a 10-week prison term after punching a constituent, which was reduced to a suspended sentence after an appeal.

A ‘significant number’ of countries will provide troops on the ground, the Prime Minister’s official spokesman told reporters.

The fire which broke out in the early hours of Sunday in Kocani, North Macedonia, has left 59 people dead and 155 injured.

The Work and Pensions Secretary – who is expected to lay out her plans on Tuesday – told MPs that reforms would be published ‘imminently’.