Ciaran Donoghue, 14 Joe Cokanasiga, 13 Ollie Lawrence, 12 Cam Redpath, 11 Tom de Glanville, 10 Finn Russell, 9 Bernard van der Linde; 1 Beno Obano, 2 Tom Dunn ...

Plus: Early prisoner release; Green Party extremism; NHS supply chains; Dame Esther Rantzen’s legacy; a new BBC levy; and Right-wing dogs ...

The Tories released 10,000 prisoners early when they faced running out of spaces in the run-up to the election. Alex Chalk, then justice secretary, had drawn up plans for a new early release scheme ...

Spending on child disability benefits has risen to more than £5bn a year following a surge in mental health claims, according ...

Saudi Arabia is believed to be planning a military offensive to drive Houthi rebels from Yemen’s Red Sea coast. The operation, expected within weeks, would be fought by Yemeni ground forces under ...

A woman deceived her former partner into thinking she had given birth to his children and sold them for £500, the High Court has ruled. The man was the victim of a “cruel” de ...

An unwilling Traitor joins the ranks, but the villains’ lord of chaos looks like he’s under serious threat ...

Conservatives’ version shows ‘Healey’s Comet’ of high taxes soaring over the heads of citizens ...

Democrats and Republicans are deep into campaign season ahead of November’s midterm elections, which will determine who controls Congress for the rest of Donald Trump’s presid ...

Pair accused of preparing acts targeting Manchester’s Jewish community on first anniversary of Heaton Park attack ...

Labour has been accused of overhauling the Ofsted system to make it more lenient towards underperforming schools. In a second ...

Kemi Badenoch has criticised Andy Burnham’s plans for electoral reform, saying she would not want to become prime minister with only 10 per cent of the vote. The Prime Minister ...