This latest official report by Alan Layton on the dire state of affairs at MDC comes eight months after North East Bylines reported an audit and governance breakdown in Tees Valley

BBC's 500 Words, the UK's largest children's writing competition for children aged 5-11.

The UK could act as "an honest broker" on AI and other global challenges, the prime minister tells world leaders at the UN.

UN report says rivers and lakes are drying up while glaciers are retreating

Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres Pfas companies are launching a “tidal wave” of forever chemicals production to meet demand from the AI industry, a campaign organisation has warned. Despite alarm over the chemicals, which have been linked to cancer, a survey of the 10 biggest manufacturers found most had plans to increase production. Continue reading...

Foiled drone attack at German airport seen as sign of Nato’s weak response and Moscow’s impunity

BBC News visits town where violence has escalated after the fatal crash and residents say they are living in fear.

Leading cardiovascular health groups reclassify overlooked causes and introduce sex-specific diagnostic thresholds

Sebastién Maillard argues that the UK should rejoin European civil protection as part of its reset with the EU. 

Crime has been falling for decades in Britain - but why is that so hard to believe?

Crime has been falling for decades in Britain - but why is that so hard to believe?

Andy Burnham said he would consider if a restriction on purchasing the products during the summer months could be justified

I visited the top 20 buildings in need of reviving in Middlesbrough

Exclusive: England ‘desperately unprepared’ for effects of crisis including water shortages and heatwaves

There are social tipping points when the seemingly impossible suddenly becomes inevitable. Good journalism plays an essential role in helping drive these shifts and shows us how real change can happen

With OfS's proposed fairness condition under consultation, Jim Dickinson audits what universities tell applicants about costs – and finds silence, archaeology or arithmetic that doesn't add up

Louise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups

Discover how urban trees reduce heat, cool cities and tackle the urban heat island effect while creating healthier communities.

Research shows beavers are creating more wetland areas since being reintroduced to the wild.

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

Reform's deputy leader is being investigated about an allegation he failed to declare an interest.

As climate impacts intensify, campaigners are calling for a televised National Emergency Briefing to tell the public the truth about the crisis — and what must happen next

Samir Shah: Hero of liberal democracy!

Industrial poultry farming is killing our rivers. But rather than stop it, the government has been facilitating it. Will Andy Burnham end this ecocide, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The arrangement, which could enable the Reform UK leader to lower his tax bill, falls outside parliamentary transparency rules

"Anya" gives the BBC a rare account of how sex-criminal financier Epstein lured and abused his “assistants”.

Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year