Police continue to search River Thames for suspect over Friday’s fatal shooting of Lisa Smith, 43, from Slough A woman shot dead at a Kent pub on Valentine’s Day has been named as Lisa Smith. The 43-year-old from Slough was killed in Knockholt near The Three Horseshoes pub shortly after […]

Successive governments’ ‘penal populism’ has driven England and Wales justice system to brink of collapse, report finds Successive governments’ overreliance on prison sentences and desire to seem “tough on crime” have driven the justice system in England and Wales to the brink of collapse, an official review has found. A […]

Former UK prime minister says US may regret ceding world stage to China and condemns ‘hypocritical’ JD Vance speech Democracy around the globe is under threat from the retreat of Donald Trump’s US into isolationism and its likely replacement by China on the world stage, John Major has said. The […]