The polls have closed in the Sleaford and North Hykeham by-election, where UKIP have been campaigning hard to try to win the seat from the Conservatives.

Children from "just about managing" families are under-represented in grammar schools, says research.

At least 50,000 IS militants have been killed over the past two years, a top US military official says.

David Cameron defends calling the EU referendum, saying the issue had been "poisoning" UK politics.

Families bereaved by the Glasgow bin lorry crash are told they cannot launch a private prosecution.

Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders is convicted in hate speech trial but no penalty is imposed.

Hundreds of Aleppo men are reported "missing" after leaving rebel areas, the UN says.

The number of people falling ill with the vomiting bug norovirus in England this winter is at higher than average levels.