The UK’s new adviser on climate change has vowed to fight for political consensus on net zero in the face of growing “headwinds”.

Two Independents and candidates from five political parties will contest a crucial council by-election - but there is no Labour choice.

The King has joined members of the royal family for the Catholic funeral of the Duchess of Kent. Mourners have filled Westminster Cathedral for the requiem mass, a Catholic funeral, the first to be ...