The 2 May local elections will have more than 2,600 seats at stake across 107 English councils. Labour s Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham are among the 10 mayors up for re-election.
Labour have promised to renationalise nearly all passenger railways within their first term if they win the next election. But will it leave the railways better off?
Only two months ago Joe Biden joined the social media platform TikTok with a video captioned "lol hey guys". Now, the US president is poised to sign a bill that could ban the popular app - unless its parent company sells it.
Conservative MP Mark Menzies has been suspended from the parliamentary party in light of allegations he abused local Tory party funds to pay off "bad people".