4 d. ago Emily Eavis reveals Glastonbury capacity cut to avoid overcrowding

Festival organiser also shared that staff did not believe the festival suffered from overcrowding last year, despite complaints from some fans

Politics

4 d. ago June warning that gardeners who cut hedges could 'face jail time and unlimited fine'

If gardeners are cutting hedges and a bird's nest is damaged or destroyed - intentionally or otherwise - then they're breaking the law and could face a fine or jail time

Events

8 d. ago LIVE: Rail chaos with one line shut and emergency measures imposed on major route

Trains are being delayed and cancelled across Greater Manchester

Events

9 d. ago Man torches £70k garden room after neighbour cut his grass while he was in jail

The garden room was completely destroyed as the blaze started by 34-year-old Jack Suddaby spread, with the neighbour desperately trying to use a hosepipe to put the flames out

Economics

1 week ago Smuggler who claimed £5m coke haul was sombreros has jail sentence cut

Border Force stopped Kristopher Purvis in Edinburgh Airport's "nothing to declare" customs channel when he claimed all he brought back from Mexico was four sombreros.

Economics

3 w. ago Tommy Robinson to be released from jail in days after sentence cut

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon was jailed in October after admitting multiple breaches of an injunction made in 2021.

Events

4 w. ago Recalled sex offenders and domestic abusers face early release as prisons near ‘zero capacity’

The victim’s commissioner says the emergency measures are ‘unacceptable’ — but the government has warned the UK is months away from running out of prison spaces

Events

4 w. ago Emergency measures to be introduced before overcrowded prisons reach 'zero capacity'

“If our prisons overflow, we reach a total breakdown of law and order"

Events

4 w. ago New emergency measures to cut prison overcrowding as Government warns jails to be full in five months

Three new prisons will be built and new recall measures will be introduced in a bid to manage the jail population

Events

4 w. ago More emergency measures to cut jail overcrowding before ‘zero capacity’ reached

Legislation to bring in the changes is expected to be introduced in the coming weeks.

Events

4 w. ago New emergency measures as UK prisons on verge of collapse with jail places set to run out in November

Three new prisons will be built and new recall measures will be introduced in a bid to manage the jail population

Events

4 w. ago More emergency prison measures revealed as jails to run out in FIVE months

In a speech from Downing Street on Wednesday, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said three new prisons will be built as part of a 'record prison expansion' backed by £4.7billion

Events

4 w. ago Recalled prisoners to be released after 28 days under emergency measures to free up 1400 cells

The justice secretary warned we are five months from running out of prison places - which risks the ‘total breakdown of law and order’

Events