A "device" has caused a car to explode outside a police station in Dunmurry, in what the chair of the Northern Ireland Policing Board said was an "attempt to kill officers".

Sir Keir Starmer has defended his decision to sack Olly Robbins over the vetting process for Peter Mandelson - saying the senior civil servant only faced the "everyday pressure of government".

A mother and her child have died after getting "into difficulty" in the water in a west London park, police said.

Higher prices could last for more than eight months after the Iran war ends, the prime minister's right-hand man has said as ministers step up efforts to offset potential impacts to food and fuel supplies.