Architects warn post-Brexit visa rules hindering recruitment

Firms want review of decision to remove architecture from shortage occupation list and raise salary threshold

‘We can’t go back’: Staffordshire firms fight to keep ceramics tradition alive

Royal Stafford is latest in series of closures as rising costs add to pressures on companies in Potteries

Primary-age child constipation rates up 60% in England

Experts say greater awareness is needed of the misery that can be caused by the condition

Chiltern Firehouse luxury hotel blaze caused by falling wood from pizza oven

Fire broke out on Valentine’s Day, partially destroying London venue that had been due to host Bafta party

PM does not rule out vote on Ukraine peacekeeping role for UK troops

Spokesperson says Keir Starmer’s previously stated view that military action needs consent of MPs has not changed

‘Allo ‘Allo! Europe’s leaders get together dans Paris for emergency sommet

Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer and others discuss Trump, Russia and Ukraine at hastily arranged conference

UCL student accused of rape tells court he liked pornography featuring sleeping women

Jury hears Zhenhao Zou took drugs and watched ‘time stop’ pornographic scenes

Kemi Badenoch says ‘western civilisation will be lost’ if Tory party fails

Conservative leader calls ‘pronouns, diversity policies and climate activism’ a ‘poison’ in speech at rightwing event

Over 65,000 sign petition to save pitch of Tamworth TikTok star Spudman

Jacket potato seller, who has 4 million followers, says the council want to replace him with a flower bed

Lib Dems say Badenoch is echoing Trump’s ‘dangerous rhetoric’ as she claims ‘some cultures better than others’ – as it happened

Conservative leader of the opposition speaks at right-wing conference in London