Boris Johnson's former chief adviser has said the prime minister knew in advance about a Downing Street drinks party during the first coronavirus lockdown and agreed that it could go ahead, claims that have been confirmed to Sky News by a second source. [...]

A man has been charged with manslaughter after a five-year-old British girl died in a crash on the ski slopes in the French Alps. [...]

UK workers saw their wage rises wiped out by surging inflation late last year, official figures show. [...]

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has said it will investigate a drinking session marking the end of Australia's 4-0 Ashes series win at a hotel in Hobart which police were called to break up. [...]

The government has won its Court of Appeal bid to overturn a High Court ruling that it broke the law by handing a COVID contract to a company whose founders were friends of Boris Johnson's former chief aide Dominic Cummings. [...]