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A portrait of the King will appear on the front page of the Big Issue next week, it has been announced. The portrait, by renowned photographer Rankin, will appear in the magazine on Monday, a day before the King’s 75th birthday. Charles writes in the magazine about the importance of finding practical ways to bridge the gap between food waste and food need. He explains that this has led him

Russell T Davies has said the new series of Doctor Who starring actors Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson will be “thrilling” to watch. Screenwriter and producer, Davies, 60, who has returned as showrunner, compared the upcoming series with the 2005 revival of the long-running BBC show which starred Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor and Billie Piper as his companion Rose. The series starring Eccleston and Piper was filmed in 2004,

Six members of a drugs ring which smuggled more than £1.5 billion of cocaine into the UK in boxes of frozen chicken have been jailed. The gang’s plot saw 15 tonnes of the Class A drug hidden in pallets of frozen chicken and imported from the Netherlands before being repackaged and sold to dealers, West Yorkshire Police said. On Friday, six people were given prison terms totalling 58 years at

A dog-walker caught on doorbell camera footage as he viciously kicked a 21-year-old cat into a road has been ordered to complete 300 hours of community work. Terry Bree, 71, was charged last month after “extremely distressing” video of the attack on the cat, which died three weeks later, was posted on social media. Bree pleaded guilty on Friday to a charge of causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal

Delivery giant Evri has said it is investing £46 million to boost its customer service and operations ahead of the busy Christmas period. It said this will include a new automatic call-back service, through a new phone line, to help customers regarding any issues with orders. The courier, which was rebranded from Hermes last year, said the facility is expected to allow the business to connect 40% more people with advisers at

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp admits he is more concerned with side’s defensive display than the role VAR played in denying his side a late Europa League draw in Toulouse. Individual mistakes and a lack of collective cohesion saw the hosts take a 3-1 lead but Diogo Jota’s 89th-minute strike, after Cristian Casseres’ own goal had got them back into the game, set up a dramatic conclusion. In the seventh and

People should adopt “old-fashioned” methods to stay healthy as they get older because falling sick is not inevitable, England’s most senior doctor has said. Professor Sir Chris Whitty called on people to take responsibility for their own health with good diet and exercise, while calling on the Government to do more to make healthy lives the norm. People are living longer and, by 2050, a quarter of those in the UK will

Rishi Sunak is under pressure to sack Suella Braverman after she defied Downing Street by publishing an article accusing police of bias over protests in support of Palestine. Her claim that there is a perception some senior officers “play favourites”, only the latest inflammatory comment by the Home Secretary in recent days, has prompted frustration and unease among Conservative MPs and sparked calls for the Prime Minister to sack her after she

People should try to visit friends and family at least once a month to stop them feeling lonely and reduce their risk of premature death, a new study suggests. It comes as researchers found that people who never or rarely have the company of their nearest and dearest are more likely to die. Even those who live with someone else can be at risk if they are visited infrequently, academics