Bridget Phillipson said a Tory amendment to the schools Bill is unnecessary as she defended removing automatic academisation of failing schools.

A panel in the case of a Metropolitan police officer who is alleged to have used the term ‘cotton pickers’ has retired to consider its verdict.

A CHESHIRE man who subjected his two former partners to a torrent of abuse has been jailed for three years. Craig Moses, from Vincent Street, Macclesfield, was also given a 10-year-restraining order ...