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Three people have died in a shooting near a swimming pool in Lincolnshire, police have said. The suspected gunman was among the dead in the shooting near the Castle Swimming Pool in Spalding. Lincolnshire Police, who were called to Pinchbeck Road at about 09:00 BST, said no shots were fired by their officers. Those killed are believed to be two ...

PM Theresa May has been unveiling more junior ministerial appointments as she continues to shape her administration. Anna Soubry, business minister and prominent Remain campaigner, pensions minister Baroness Altmann and justice minister Dominic Raab have left the government, No 10 said. Penny Mordaunt and Mike Penning become ministers at the Department for Work and Pensions and Ministry of Defence. Sir ...

Prime Minister Theresa May has told First Minister Nicola Sturgeon she is “willing to listen to options” on Scotland’s future relationship with the European Union. But after talks in Edinburgh, Mrs May appeared unwilling to consider a second referendum on Scottish independence. She said people in Scotland sent a “very clear message” in 2014. Ms Sturgeon said blocking a referendum, ...

An extra 750,000 school places will be needed in England by 2025 to keep up with a population bulge, says an official forecast from the Department for Education. The pressure on creating new schools and extra classrooms will be one of the challenges for incoming Education Secretary Justine Greening. Schools will have faced 16 consecutive years of rising pupil numbers. ...

Sadiq Khan ordered a review of security in London today as he declared that the capital stood “united with Nice and France” after the “unspeakable act of terror” on the French city. Police, City Hall and other security experts will examine if new measures are needed in London following the Nice lorry attack carnage in which at least 84 people were killed. It ...

David Cameron will leave Downing Street for the final time as PM later, with Theresa May waiting to replace him. Mr Cameron will face his last Prime Minister’s Questions in the Commons, before heading to Buckingham Palace to tender his resignation to the Queen. He told the Daily Telegraph: “As I leave today, I hope that people will see a stronger ...

Theresa May will make appointing a cabinet minister to take charge of Brexit one of her first tasks as she takes the keys to No 10. Britain’s new prime minister will swiftly begin drawing up her new top team and is expected to increase the number of women in government. Energy secretary Amber Rudd is expected to be given a ...

Theresa May is the new Conservative Party leader and will become the UK’s second female prime minister on Wednesday, taking charge at one of the most turbulent times in recent political history. The 59-year-old home secretary’s carefully cultivated image of political dependability and unflappability appears to have made her the right person at the right time as the fallout from ...

The Department for Education has refused to publish a report which said England’s smallest schools cannot afford to provide free school meals, according to a former policy adviser. Restaurateur John Vincent, former adviser on school food, told BBC’s Radio 4 the move was “undemocratic”. It comes after the government scrapped extra funding to help small schools with food costs earlier ...

Jeremy Corbyn’s allies seized on the news that Theresa May was set to become Prime Minister to declare that Labour does not want a summer leadership battle. Shortly after Andrea Leadsom withdrew from the Conservative Party leadership race, a source close to Corbyn said: “If May is installed, then this makes a Labour summer leadership campaign a luxury the party ...