Shares in ITV jumped nearly a fifth higher at one stage on Friday after it announced it was in ‘preliminary discussions’ with Sky.

The PA news agency looks at the reasoning and ramifications behind talks from Sky to buy ITV’s television business.

For those of us of a certain age, ITV was the one channel you wanted to watch even if your aspirational parents sniffed at it ...

Conservative Party Leader Kemi Badenoch says the mistakenly released prisoners are "making a mockery" of the UK's justice system and are "laughing at us".

Shadow Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho says "something is going very badly wrong" after another prisoner was mistakenly released before handing himself back in to HMP Wandsworth on Thursday.