Britons survived sweltering temperatures during the days of empire, a Tory former minister has said as he cautioned against taking the threat of extreme heat “overseriously”.

Since Donald Trump’s tariff announcements in April, the UK has reached new agreements with the US, India and the EU.

Champion jockey Oisin Murphy has been charged with drink driving after a car left a West Berkshire road and crashed into a tree.

A 15-year-old girl was strip searched by officers in Hackney, east London, in December 2020, after being wrongly accused of carrying cannabis.