National News

A range of stories feature on Britain’s newspapers on Wednesday.

Voters in England and Wales will go to the polls on May 2 for local, mayoral, and police and crime commissioner elections.

A 36-year-old man was tasered and arrested in Hainault on Tuesday morning.

The unnamed man is understood to have taken part in a voluntary removal scheme, and is now in Rwanda.

The existence of an ‘operational arrangement’ at the centre of the UK-Ireland diplomatic row has been acknowledged by both sides.

The 3,000-passenger liner entered her home port of Southampton on Tuesday night.

A piper played at the unveiling of the memorials to Jane Haining in Budapest.

A 14-year-old boy has died after multiple stabbings in east London.

The former prime minister said she will have ‘plenty to do’ when asked if she would follow in the footsteps of her predecessor.

A panel at the Society of Editors Conference agreed that artificial intelligence could not replace the value of journalists reporting from the ground.

Blades did not reveal details of the death but suggested he was taking time off social media to focus on his mental health.

Researchers at Ipsos conducted polling as Kate Forbes and John Swinney emerged as the early frontrunners to be Scotland’s next first minister.

The move comes after Appeal Court judges in Belfast dismissed Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris’s attempt to stop the information being shared.

Labour’s shadow culture minister Sir Chris Bryant criticised the Government for failing to do the bare minimum on ‘despicable’ resellers.

Lidl GB’s chief commercial officer Richard Bourns had told MPs: ‘We do not use farm brands, just to be absolutely clear.’

The suspect appeared to be cornered by officers as he eventually fell to the ground after being tasered.

The Local Government Association said the closure of asylum hotels meant people were turning to councils for support instead.

Former chief of the defence staff Lord Houghton of Richmond asked whether he could have invested more in defence during his premiership.

Vaughan Gething, the leader of the Welsh Labour government, has announced his intention to lobby Tata in Mumbai next week.

The trial will see street cabinets transformed into charging points at 600 sites around the UK.