- Zara Aleena’s family meet Met Commissioner to call for reform
Zara Aleena was fulfilling a lifelong ambition to be a lawyer when she was murdered in the summer of 2022. She’d spent the evening with a close friend before heading home in the early hours.
- MSPs pass first stage of divisive assisted dying law in Scotland
After a day of emotional debate at the Scottish parliament, MSPs have voted on a bill that aims to legalise assisted dying.
- There will be many more cases like this – expert lawyer
We spoke to Emma Torr who is a barrister working for the charity APPEAL, which takes on wrongful conviction cases and works with lawyers and specialist investigators to bring them to the Court of Appeal.
- Wrongly convicted of murder: 38 years to free Peter Sullivan
He has spent more than half his life in prison. Peter Sullivan walked free today after the Court of Appeal quashed his murder conviction, making him the longest-serving victim of a miscarriage of justice in the UK.
- How Brexit is boosting Britain’s Puffin population
We look into the Great Puffin Brexit Bonanza, as the critical count for this vulnerable seabird gets underway on Northumbria's Farne Islands.
- Bulgarians who ran Russian spy ring in UK jailed
Six Bulgarians convicted of spying for Russia in the UK have been jailed for between 5 and 10 years each.
- Covid Inquiry: 180,000 lives could have been saved
If the government had listened to experts and implemented the same strategies used in other countries, 180,000 lives may have been saved during Covid, the UK Covid Inquiry heard today.
- How reliant is UK on migrant care workers?
One of the government’s big announcements was that decision to end visas for people coming to the UK to work in the adult social care sector.
- ‘Suppression of wages due to cheap, overseas labour’ – Richard Tice
We spoke to Reform UK's Deputy Leader, MP Richard Tice.
- ‘People think the migration system isn’t fair’, says skills minister
We spoke to Skills Minister Jacqui Smith.
- Starmer vows to ‘significantly’ reduce migration figures
The Prime Minister is promising a significant fall in immigration in the next four years, but refusing to put a number on it.
- UK prisons: overcrowding and reoffending – is the system broken?
Overcrowding in prisons in England and Wales has contributed to soaring reoffending rates, with staff too overburdened to help offenders prepare for life on the outside.
- UK care homes face ban on recruiting staff from overseas
After a drubbing in the local elections and with migrants continuing to cross the Channel in small boats, the government is set to unveil its plan to reduce migration numbers on Monday.
- Bradford Kashmiris on India-Pakistan conflict
The events in Kashmir have ramifications here in the UK, not least in Bradford, where more than a quarter of people identify as Pakistani.
- Reform out to dismantle UK diversity programmes
We report from Doncaster where the council is now controlled by Reform.
