The Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh was delayed just hours before opening due to a fault in the ventilation system.

The online regulator has given sites until March 31 to publish risk assessments setting out how users could encounter harm on their sites.

Some buyers may have decided they are too late to take advantage of a stamp duty holiday by the end of March, a finance expert said.

Sunday’s figures take the total number of crossings since Sir Keir Starmer became Prime Minister to 25,958. The daily total is still some way off the highest number of daily crossings recorded, which ...