Hundreds of new ambulances and 55 clinics will be introduced to ease pressure on overstretched services, while the PM also pledges action on child poverty.

Following a major initiative, an expanded scheme ensuring free school meals for 500,000 additional pupils is being introduced, alongside a U-turn by the PM on winter fuel support.

A grieving mother, whose daughter died after her support was withdrawn, warns that further proposed benefit reductions risk leading to more tragedies and pleads with Labour to rethink its stance.

Authorities have launched a fresh investigation in southern Portugal, examining land near a key suspect’s former home in an effort to uncover new leads on a long-standing missing child case.