But Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is yet to agree a final settlement with the Chancellor, with reports suggesting greater police spending will mean a squeeze on other areas of her department’s budget.

Rival PHL Group has bought Totally’s selective care and corporate wellbeing subsidiaries, as well as the urgent care division.

The secretary general of the military bloc is expected to say Nato must ‘become a stronger, fairer and more lethal alliance’.

Detectives have launched a murder inquiry after a 14-year-old boy was stabbed to death in a “horrific incident” in north Manchester. Police say two boys, aged 14 and 16, are under arrest on suspicion ...