
*
‘It’s unbelievable’, Huw Nightingale’s father says after historic snowboard gold

*
Nigel Farage not a patriot, Ed Davey says as Lib Dem conference begins

*
£2.5bn from Chelsea sale ‘still locked up’ three years on

*
Government urged to grant more court sitting days to tackle prison population

*
No blanket do-not-resuscitate order during Covid, Swann tells inquiry

*
Covid had more impact on health services in NI, Swann tells inquiry

*
NHS backlog would not be as bad if No 10 had agreed beds funding, inquiry told

*
David Oyelowo urges support for arts education amid decline in uptake

*
Harrowing Covid-19 stories published by inquiry

*
Mahmood open to ‘further emergency measures’ to respond to prisons ‘crisis’

*
Government target to cut crown court backlogs ‘no longer achievable’ – report

*
Lidl quizzed by MPs over ‘Strathvale farm’ Scottish chicken

*
Horrible Histories celebrates 15 years on the BBC

*
Returns deal would focus on safe routes for children with family in UK – Labour

*
Labour small boats scheme criticised as it sets out plans to cut asylum backlog

*
Thousands of new staff would ‘cut asylum backlog and end hotel and barge use’

*
Use of stop and search will be ‘intelligence-led’ under new Met policing plan

*
Co Derry actor to play John Hume in musical drama about Nobel laureate’s life

*
Honour for 93-year-old whose knitted Sandringham House was seen by the Queen

*
Crown courts ‘struggling’ to find enough judges and lawyers to deal with backlog

*
Queen’s 96th birthday celebrated with release of photograph

*
West End venue Grand Connaught Rooms to become criminal courthouse

*
Three Nightingale Courts in London to stay open for extra year

*
Monument Nightingale Court to shut in April despite massive backlog

*
Private hospital sector could earn up to £90m a month being on standby for NHS

*
Covid-19 hospital admissions rise to highest level since January

*
NHS hospital staff absences due to Covid nearly double in a month

*
What the papers say – December 30

*
Sex offence convictions see yearly increase, but lower than previous figures

*
