A pilot project aimed at taking young people off the dole under the EU’s Youth Guarantee scheme will have to return money to Europe after failing to make use of all its funding.

A highly-criticised undercover police unit was so secretive even Scotland Yard bosses were unaware that it existed, it has emerged.

Police are to publicly apologise for the use of names of dead children by undercover officers.

TRADE unions representing 60,000 employees in the community sector have demanded that their members are fully and fairly represented in the upcoming round of national pay talks.