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Craig Mackinlay, 52, and his two assistants are said to have spent more than double the legal limit to see off the former UKIP leader's bid to win the South Thanet seat in Kent

Detectives warned women walking home alone after work to be on their guard after the victims were attacked in the Docklands area of east London - all in the early evening

George Osborne has admitted government mistakes led to Brexit, saying they were wrong to “play into the debate that everything that Brussels did was a challenge and a battle and was wrong”. Talking to the BBC’s Newsnight the former Chancellor said he has a series of "regrets" about his time in office, saying Remain supporters had explained the benefits of EU membership "too late". He said the Tories had got things wrong on immigration policy which "opened up the door...

Terrified residents said communal areas are crawling with the poisonous spiders that can be seen dangling their legs out from cracks in the walls and hiding under the stairs.

Cesar Altier Sayoc faces 48 years in prison after being accused of sending 14 pipe bombs to well-known Democrats including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

A vulnerable 17-year-old who was housed in a tent by a council became emaciated and was detained in a psychiatric hospital, the local government watchdog has said. The shocking story will leave many aghast at how the council dealt with this young man, who can't be named for legal reasons. In 2016 the teenager spent five weeks in a tent, four weeks in a static caravan and several nights sleeping rough after approaching Cornwall council for help. The council shockingly...

I don't know how the Government have the cheek to say austerity is over then deliver this budget with a straight face says GMB Union Chancellor Philip Hammond’s budget has been ‘more trick than treat’ after Amazon were given a free pass until 2020 at least and school children were handed a pittance. The Chancellor announced a new digital services tax which gives the likes of Amazon a free pass until at least 2020. Meanwhile the UK’s desperately under-funded education system was...

Melissa Whitchurch and her partner Chris Steer desperately rummaged around their home looking for things to sell so that they could buy food for their five-year-old daughter Cheyenne.

Philip Hammond’s budget, which was billed as marking an end to austerity, will actually benefit rich families 14 times more than the poor, new analysis has revealed. The Resolution Foundation crunched the numbers on the latest budget finding almost half of the income tax are set to go to the top ten per cent of households. Households in the top cohort will gain £410 from income tax and benefits changes announced yesterday, whereas those in the poorest ten per cent...