A police officer has denied he “lost control” in the aftermath of being allegedly assaulted by two brothers at Manchester Airport.

Campaigners, school children and grandparents were among those calling for MPs to give the crisis the ‘precedence it needs’.

Campaign group Save Wimbledon Park is challenging the decision of the Greater London Authority to grant planning permission for the expansion.

Birmingham council has announced it has reached the “absolute limit” of what it can offer to resolve a long-running pay dispute. Members of Unite have been on all-out strike since early March, leading ...