Mosaic artist Ed Chapman has created biscuit portraits of famous British people using McVitie’s chocolate digestives.

The UK Resilience Academy will train more than 4,000 people working in both public services and the private sector each year to deal with crises.

Industrial waste is turning into rock in decades, much faster than the millions of years it is thought to take for it to form naturally, research has shown.

Voters will go to the polls in 23 council areas across England on Thursday May 1, and will choose a new MP in Runcorn and Helsby.