The number of asylum seekers being housed temporarily in UK hotels has risen by 8% under Labour on the same point last year, according to newly published data.

Felixstowe man, Mark French, has been jailed for 19 years after being found guilty of child sex crimes dating to the 1990s.

Ethel Caterham, of Lightwater, Surrey, who was born in August 1909, succeeded to the title of oldest living person in April.