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Detectives investigating two linked "targeted arson attacks" on places of worship have arrested a man.

Theresa May was today asked about a 10-year-old orphan facing deportation. Glasgow North East MP Paul Sweeney called on the Prime Minster to guarantee asylum for a 10-year-old boy orphaned in Scotland. When he was a three-year-old toddler Giorgi Kakava and his widowed mum Sophie fled Georgia seven years ago amid threats from gangland figures in their native country. Sophie died in February before their asylum application could be processed, leaving her son orphaned. The young Celtic fan, who only...

A new tool has been released which reveals how individual schools have been hit by government cuts. Some £2.8 billion has been cut from school budgets since 2015. That equates to an average of £54,000 cut per primary school and 205,600 per secondary school. A new School Cuts App shows what schools in your community will lose by 2020, with some in line for cuts of over £250 per pupil as classroom sizes balloon and funding is withdrawn. The app...

The UK has nine out of the ten poorest regions in northern Europe, with suggestions that the rapid industrial decline brought about under Margaret Thatcher is chiefly responsible for creating pockets of poverty in one of the World's richest economies. West Wales, Durham and Tees Valley, South Yorkshire and Northern Ireland all rank highly as the poorest areas in Europe in a report by Inequality Briefing. The report notes that despite Britain having a similar economic make-up to its northern European...

The combustible cladding installed during the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower was like “petrol”, experts have said. Speaking at the public inquiry into the fire, in which 72 people lost their lives, Stephanie Barwise QC said the scale of the disaster suggested failures “at every level of design and construction” of the building. Prior to its refurbishment Grenfell Tower was virtually incombustible. But the building was then coated in polyethylene cladding 'now openly described by some within the industry as petrol'...

MPs will have just 12 hours to debate 15 crucial amendments to the Brexit bill, including the customs union, the date and time of the exit and Northern Ireland. The latest amendments from the House of Lords will circle back to the Commons on 12 June, but with a working majority of just 13 Prime Minister Theresa May has given politicians just half a day to debate the changes and send the bill back to the house. Tory chief whip Julian Smith...

The number of Brits saying the vote to leave the EU was the wrong decision has reached a new high, according to the latest data. In the same week that prominent Leave campaigner Nigel Farage claimed he never “promised that Brexit would be a huge success” confidence from the British public also seems to be diminishing. Shocking analysis recently pooled the mounting evidence that suggests Brexit will make us poorer. Some 97 per cent of academics, the IMF, World Bank, HM...

Officers will be patrolling airports in a bid to prevent any of the estimated 1,900 hooligans subject to bans from attending the Russia World Cup.

The UK parliamentary constituencies most at risk from Donald Trump’s steel tariffs have been revealed in new analysis. Trump protectionist administration has slapped a 25 per cent tariff on steel and a 10 per cent tariff on aluminium, citing national security interests. Britain's steel industry directly contributes £2 billion to the economy every year, official figures show. In total, more than a billion pounds are paid in wages to steelworkers across the country each year. That adds up to more than...