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Thursday's local elections have been pencilled in as a day of peril for Rishi Sunak for so long, it's hard to remember when Tory turbulence - and maybe even a leadership challenge - was not expected after 2 May.

The UK will not take back asylum seekers who cross the border into Ireland "until the EU accepts that we can send them back to France", according to a government source.

More human remains have been found in two locations as part of an investigation that started when a man's torso was discovered in Salford.

A British tourist seriously injured in a shark attack off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago is "aware of what is happening and can communicate", according to his wife.

Highs of 20C (68F) are expected in parts of the UK this week, the Met Office has said, following a spell of cold, wet and windy weather.

Sir Keir Starmer will vow to "inject resource and reform" into mental health services as he welcomes the latest addition to his party.

MPs are set to debate assisted dying today, after a campaign backed by the journalist and campaigner Dame Esther Rantzen.

The number of migrants that have crossed the Channel in small boats during the first four months of the year is at its highest ever level.

The lawyer for Harvey Weinstein says the former film producer has been taken to hospital after being moved to a New York jail.

ITV News broadcaster Rageh Omaar has said he was "determined to finish presenting the programme" after returning home following hospital treatment.

A TV doctor who gave free Botox to a patient in return for sex at his clinic has been struck off.

A well-known Iraqi social media influencer has been shot dead in her car by a gunman who was on a motorbike.

The average price paid for comprehensive motor insurance rose 1% in the first quarter of the year, according to industry data indicating an easing in the steep rises seen last year.

Blackstone, the American private equity behemoth, is this weekend finalising a revised offer to buy the company which owns the music catalogues of Shakira and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Monzo, the fintech which has become one of Britain's biggest consumer banking groups, is this weekend putting the finishing touches to an expanded fundraising involving one of the world's best-known technology investors.

Jeremy Hunt is convening a summit aimed at enticing more companies to London's stock market amid an accelerating exodus of businesses being picked off by overseas and financial predators.