Stuart Spray speaks to the residents of Great Plumpton, close to a shale gas exploration site, about the realities of fracking – as Westminster descends into chaos over banning it
After years of campaigning, and an increase in tactics learned from US-based anti-abortion groups, buffer zones will be introduced in England and Wales
The country is following a familiar pattern of environmental, energy and economic-driven state failure – and if the next government refuses to break with neoliberal orthodoxy, it will only accelerate this downwards trajectory, writes Nafeez Ahmed
Government cuts have hamstrung the regulator at exactly the wrong moment, reports Andrew Kersley
MPs have raised serious concerns that the criminal justice system cannot cope with the increase in fraud cases – with fraud now making up 40% of reported crime. Sian Norris reports