Tuesday morning residents of Ilford saw thick smoke coming out of the town centre, as firefighters tried to tackle the blaze.

A spiritual healer who tricked a woman into having sex with him at his Birmingham home by claiming it would cure her marriage problems has been jailed for 12 years. Syed Shah also conned the 28-year-old mum into handing over £6,000.

Sir Terence Conran has won a bitter legal battle against his right-hand man, restaurant tycoon Des Gunewardena, who was seeking 3m pounds in a court fight between the two former business partners.

Former youth football coach Barry Bennell, who is at the centre of the game’s child sex abuse scandal, was rushed to hospital after being found unconscious.

Sexual harassment of girls in schools is a widespread problem but compulsory sex education is not needed, the Government has said.

The husband of jailed British mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says he is "disappointed in the failure of Boris Johnson's efforts" two years on from her arrest in Iran.