A teenage girl has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after two teachers and a pupil were stabbed at a school in West Wales.

Three men have been arrested after the deaths of five people - including a seven-year-old girl - who were attempting to cross the English Channel.

Military horses have caused "total mayhem" after bolting during exercises and charging through central London in rush hour.

A man has been charged with kidnap and sexual assault of a nine-year-old girl in Knightsbridge, central London.

Campaigners have been given the green light to bring forward a High Court challenge against the government's ban on XL bully dogs.

A D-Day veteran, who flew a glider into France and survived being shot by a tank, has died aged 100.

A police officer described the students stabbed to death in Nottingham last summer as "proper butchered" and said officers "tried to hold their inners in".

Frank Field, the former Labour MP and minister, has died at the age of 81.

Walsall Council has continued its commitment to preserving the cleanliness and beauty of the borough through the diligent efforts of its fly-tipping task force. 

A plan to convert a former barbershop left empty for more than a decade is one of a number of HMO plans submitted to the council.

A Birmingham dessert shop has been given permission to remain open until the early hours after agreeing conditions with the police.

A choir to help people living with dementia in the Black Country has received a cash boost thanks to a generous donation from West Bromwich Building Society.

Dudley planners have approved an application for five new detached homes on a derelict plot in Gornal Wood.

Four young people from across the West Midlands have been named as this year’s winners of the Young Active Citizens Awards.

A former Edwardian nurses’ home donated to Smethwick will be converted into flats.

A new attempt to turn a plot of land in Wednesbury that has been empty for more than a decade into housing has been given the green light by the council.

Richard Gadd has urged fans of his hit show Baby Reindeer to stop speculating about who the characters in his show are based on in real life.

Police in Australia have launched a manhunt for former soap opera star Orpheus Pledger after he failed to appear in court to face charges of assault.

A guitar used by John Lennon in the recording of The Beatles album and film Help! is going up for auction after being found in a loft.

US actor Terry Carter, who starred in 1970s TV shows including Battlestar Galactica and McCloud, has died at the age of 95.

Broadcaster Zoe Ball says her family are "bereft" following her mother's death from cancer.

Jamie Carragher says Liverpool's move for Arne Slot demonstrates the lack of "top managers" currently available.

In his latest column for Sky Sports, Paul Merson delivers a scathing assessment of Chelsea's recruitment and questions how they will get out of the mess they find themselves in.

Erik ten Hag has hit back at the media for its "embarrassing" reaction to Manchester United's narrow FA Cup semi-final victory over Coventry, describing certain comments as a "disgrace".

Emma Raducanu's options after her disappointing early Madrid Open exit fall into three: play in Rome, play qualifying at the French Open, or wait until the grass season, according to Colin Fleming and Anne Keothavong...

Shipping traffic through the vital Suez Canal artery in Egypt has plunged by 66% since cargo was forced to divert due to attacks on vessels, according to official figures.

English football's top flight is toasting a £40m sponsorship deal with Guinness after the Diageo-owned brand saw off competition from Heineken.

The post office scandal extends “greatly beyond” faulty Horizon software, according to a lawyer for victims.

Ryanair is suing air traffic control body Nats over last summer's flight chaos when more than 700,000 passengers were hit by cancellations and delays.

TikTok has promised a court battle over a new law that threatens to ban it in the US - with the app's boss saying "we aren't going anywhere".

MPs have voted in favour of the government's Renters' Reform Bill - despite it including an indefinite delay to the end of no-fault evictions.

Labour's Angela Rayner has attacked the Conservatives for "obsessing" over her living arrangements while renters continue to face uncertainty over the government's promise to end no-fault evictions.

This was a trip with two aims: to refocus the world's attention on Ukraine and announce a big boost in defence spending - with an eye, of course, on national security, but also on the general election.   

Rishi Sunak has insisted his uplift in defence spending is "fully funded" after Labour branded the announcement a pre-election "gimmick".

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has said he wants the new NATO target for defence spending to increase from the current 2% of gross domestic product to 2.5%.

A 16-year-old boy has been arrested by anti-terrorism police in France after he allegedly said on social media he wanted to "die a martyr" at the Olympic Games in Paris this summer.

The parents of an Israeli hostage have told him "we love you, stay strong, survive" after he appeared with part of his arm missing in a video released by Hamas.

Three men have been arrested after the deaths of five people - including a seven-year-old girl - who were attempting to cross the English Channel.

Police in Australia have launched a manhunt for former soap opera star Orpheus Pledger after he failed to appear in court to face charges of assault.

Mae Tao clinic in Mae Sot, a frontier town along the border with Myanmar, is a harrowing window into a civil war that has suddenly escalated.

A US woman has become the first person in the world to undergo a pig kidney transplant and also have a mechanical heart pump surgically implanted.

Shipping traffic through the vital Suez Canal artery in Egypt has plunged by 66% since cargo was forced to divert due to attacks on vessels, according to official figures.

In his prison cell, drug lord Adolfo 'Fito' Macias lived like a king. Then one day, he vanished.

Skies over Athens have turned an orange hue as clouds of dust have blown across the Mediterranean Sea from the Sahara desert.

Devastating flooding has struck east Africa, with extreme rainfall wreaking havoc across several countries.

A dog has been rescued after getting trapped under a kitchen at a home in Swansea.

Milan is proposing a new law to ban ice cream after midnight in an effort to protect the "tranquillity" of residents.

A dog who went missing in Australia for more than a fortnight has been reunited with his owners in the UK.

A ram believed to be responsible for killing an elderly couple has been shot dead by New Zealand police.

NASA has been asked to help in a new search for the Loch Ness monster.