What happenedAndy Burnham has pledged to use a major increase in UK defence spending to revive domestic manufacturing – rather than channel billions of pounds to overseas arms suppliers – if he becomes prime minister.In his first major foreign policy statement, Burnham said Britain should use its co...

What happenedJustice Secretary David Lammy said the King had granted a conditional pardon to Ruth Ellis, 71 years after her execution. Lammy said the court at Ellis’s 1955 trial for fatally shooting her partner David Blakely had failed to consider evidence that she was a victim of domestic abuse and...

New medicine can be found even in the iciest of locations. During an expedition to Antarctica, scientists discovered a species of sea squirt that may promise a new cancer treatment. The marine organism contains bacteria capable of producing a toxin that could eventually become a widely available dru...