More doctors and patients are turning to the private sector as demand increases pressure on the NHS.

The UK was not involved in, nor has it endorsed, the strikes on Iran by Israel and the US.

There is no confirmation by the US or Israel of the strike on the school located near elite military troops.

The killing of the supreme leader will be a huge jolt to the Islamic Republic, which will try hard to show it has a plan in place.

British military personnel at a base in Bahrain were "within several hundred yards" of a strike, the defence secretary says.

The prime minister says it remains the case that the UK will "not join offensive action now".

Iran launched retaliatory attacks in the Middle East after US-Israel strikes across the country.

The US president may be forced to wage a political battle at home while presiding over a new war in the Middle East.