Helen Harrison will stand in Wellingborough byelection called after bullying and harassment revelations against Bone

The Conservatives have chosen the partner of disgraced ex-MPpeter Bone to fight a by-election to replace him.

The directors of The Full Monty, In the Bedroom and Michael Clayton pay tribute to the actor, who died on Saturday, along with David Hare, Richard Eyre, John Madden, Jonathan Pryce, Jay Roach, Justin Theroux, Harriet Walter, Cathy Tyson, Christopher ...

Limited rail replacement buses will travel from London on these weekends

Some 3,000 labour migrants detained in St petersburg alone as Vladimir Putin takes to increasingly desperate measures to make up for Ukraine war losses

Counsel for ex-MI5 officer peter Wright suggested role for Australian media tycoon but idea was swiftly rejected

National Archives papers show prime minister tried in vain to avoid inquiry over peter Wright’s memoirs

Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev has met Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan for bilateral talks in St petersburg

Swimmers braved a Christmas Day dip as they competed in a race on the Serpentine in London's Hyde Park on Monday, 25 December. Members of the Serpentine Swimming Club who took part in the peter Pan Cup race, which is held every Christmas Day at the S ...

The foreign secretary should take the lead in creating a unified military supply chain to Kyiv and robustly sanctioning Russia

A firefighter has shared his three essential rules for travelling safely at Christmas ahead of the UK’s busiest day on the roads tomorrow (23 December). Speaking to Sky News on Friday, peter Bromley, crew commander at Cambridgeshire fire and rescue ...

Following the Guardian’s Top 50 countdown, as voted for by the whole film team, announcing its No 1, here are our chief critic’s personal choices

Of course faith in MPs is in decline: crises abound, and yet too many are incompetent, badly behaved and have the wrong priorities, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

Jonathan Ashworth, out campaigning for byelection, said Rishi Sunak is being ‘pushed around’ by rightwingers

Labour given chance to win back seat after Tory MP found to have subjected staff member to bullying and sexual misconduct

Wellingborough MP was suspended fom Commons in October after bullying and sexual misconduct inquiry

Conservatives are pointing to Venezuela’s economy and 20-year-old lawsuits about dogs to try to damage Labour’s prospects. With the country so broken already, will anyone buy their arguments, asks Zoe Williams

A driver reversed the length of a residential street in an attempt to evade police in peterborough. Mobashar Yasin, 29, of Gladstone Street, Millfield, was signalled to stop in Cobden Street, but instead reversing the whole length of Lime Tree Avenue ...

This is the moment Vladimir Putin takes a question from an AI-generated “resident of St petersburg” who asks the Russian leader if it is true he has lots of body doubles. Putin responds and states: "I have decided the only one who looks ...

Penny Mordaunt mocked the SNP with a take on “The Twelve Days of Christmas” carol. After being asked about “morality” by the Scottish party on Thursday (14 December), the Commons Leader told MPs: “We should have a festive round-up on SNP mo ...