Jayne Dowle

Talk about turning back the clock. It’s like the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike all over again here in Barnsley, as families argue and friends fall out on social media over who voted Labour and who voted Reform UK.

With Sir Keir Starmer’s political authority in tatters, the way looks clear for Andy Burnham to stand as Labour’s candidate in the upcoming Makerfield by-election, but the progress of the so-called ‘King in the North’ might be halted.

Bullying should be criminalised, says a Yorkshire mother who lost her 14-year-old daughter to suicide following a “relentless” barrage of violence, abuse and insults from her classmates.

Just when you thought that politics couldn’t fall any further into the gutter, along comes a man in a white truck bearing battered St George’s flags to hurl foul-mouthed abuse at the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Interior Design Masters judge Michelle Ogundehin sent home Duran Abdullah in tonight's quarter-final after saying her shop redesign lacked an ‘unexpected bit'.

Interior Design Masters judge Michelle Ogundehin sent home Duran Abdullah in the quarter-final after saying her shop redesign lacked an ‘unexpected bit'.

With Andy Burnham in the spotlight, we assess whether Manchester holds the solution to building the homes we need, or whether other post-industrial cities are doing better

Just how much more evidence do we need that the UK isn’t working? Almost all, 84 per cent, of young people aged 16 to 24 not in education, employment or training want a job, but the system conspires against them.

It was semi-final week on Interior Design Masters , and the three remaining contestants were tasked with transforming two hospitality boxes each at Brighton & Hove Albion's football ground.

A shock poll finds trade union members are now as likely to support Reform UK as Labour and obviously Nigel Farage is triumphant.