Wes Streeting has described nurses as “the backbone of our NHS” after a staff member was left in a critical condition by a stabbing in a hospital’s A&E department.

Police were called at 10.35pm on Saturday to reports of gun shots being fired in separate incidents in Hackney, east London.

The annual No Trousers Tube Ride event has returned in colourful fashion as people stripped down to their underwear and hopped on the London Underground. Hordes of bare legs were seen at Newport Place ...

Searchers in the Dolomites said they have found items belonging to Aziz Ziriat, 36, who has been missing since January 1.