Lord Houchen was seen descending an escalator with leadership hopeful Tom Tugendhat at his party’s Birmingham conference on Sunday.

Conservative leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch has said she does “believe in maternity pay” after previously describing it as “excessive”. Ms Badenoch said on X that “contrary to what some have said” ...

A British fashion designer said she is “over the moon” that one of her long-lost designs was found in an Oxfam charity shop nearly 40 years after it went missing from the designer’s warehouse.

Yellow weather warnings come into force on Sunday, for wind and rain which will hit areas already saturated by downpours earlier in the week.