Brits are delaying booking Channel crossings until they have more certainty over the final Brexit deal, Brittany Ferries has warned. The company, which carries as many as 2,500 passengers on each vessel to France and Spain, says concerns over future travel implications has led to a 4 to 5 per cent slump among its most loyal customers. Nigel Wonnacott, from Brittany Ferries, said customers were worried about taking pets abroad, their European health insurance, and driving licenses allowing free travel...

The Trussell Trust says it has handed out a record number of emergency supplies between April and September this year as the government’s disastrous roll-out of Universal Credit continues to wreak havoc on the most vulnerable people in the country. More than 650,000 emergency supplies were handed out to people in crisis in the six months up to October, a 13 per cent increase on same period in 2017. The charity says if the five week minimum wait for a...

Yesterday the Government published the Universal Credit (Managed Migration) Regulations 2018. Despite the seemingly earlier positive announcement in the Autumn Budget for investment in mental health services, the regulations published today confirm many people with mental health problems on existing benefits will be forced to make a new claim for Universal Credit. People risk losing their income - and even their homes - in the process of re-applying for financial support they’re already entitled to. In areas where Universal Credit...

Lee Cimino, 30, fit a pair of trainers, shorts, t-shirt, jumper, towel and underwear in his tailor-made coat

If there was any doubt whom the primary beneficiaries of Brexit will be, Nick Timothy’s latest screed in the Telegraph made it clear. The former May chief of staff proposed a “radical Brexit speech Theresa May could still make”, which involves turning entire swathes of British territory into “combined free ports and enterprise zones”. This idea is by no means a new one – the Centre for Policy Studies and Tory MP Rishi Sunak have long argued that creating Freeports, or areas that despite...

Nigel Knighton was allowed to work in properties for 18 months after his bosses failed to carry out a background check

The car crooks used a scanner to intercept and copy the key's signal from outside the house in seconds

Greg Irvin, 26, butchered charity worker Anne James, 74, after she offered to give him money for an engagement ring

Arsene Wenger has reportedly been in talks for weeks to replace Gennaro Gattuso in the manager role