HM Coastguard Southend says the van driver had been trying to get to Foulness Island.

The foreign secretary said the UK would "continue to look at co-ordinated action, including increasing sanctions on the Russian regime".

A number of children have been hospitalised as officials urge families to check they are up to date with their vaccines.

Jonathan Dimbleby tells BBC Newsnight that the King will be "feeling the pain" of the scandal surrounding his brother.

Revelations over Peter Mandelson’s links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have raised questions about how he became ambassador. Our Analysis Editor Ros Atkins reports.

After a 20-year Gruffalo hiatus, author Julia Donaldson announces the new book's title on BBC Radio 4.