The government dropping the digital ID scheme's mandatory element is another climbdown for Downing Street, writes the BBC's political editor.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland has named the man as 43-year-old Wayne Reid.

National strike action by the EIS union over teachers' workloads could potentially close almost every school in Scotland.

Labour came third in the Caerphilly by-election, its first parliamentary defeat in the seat for 100 years.