Humidity made his rivals feel the heat in the Chesham Stakes thanks to a fine front-running ride from James Doyle at Royal Ascot.

Parts of the country will see the ‘perfect conditions’ for thunderstorms as the heatwave continues, the Met Office said.

Globetrotting star Rebel’s Romance belatedly got Charlie Appleby off the mark at Royal Ascot this year with a typically determined display in the Hardwicke Stakes.

The Tory leader of the Opposition has previously called for the group to be banned from Glastonbury, and last year Kneecap won a discrimination case against the UK Government in Belfast High Court ...

EU countries including Ireland had called for an agreement with Israel to be reviewed to see if human rights clauses had been breached.

The exchanges of the dead and wounded soldiers are the only tangible result of direct peace talks in Istanbul.