Politics

Shabana Mahmood says the policy has been "difficult" to scale up and the numbers involved are still "relatively small". Read the full story at BBC News.

One voter in the symbolic referendum in Piddington, Oxfordshire, calls it the "Battle of Britain". Read the full story at BBC News.

The government could legislate to force firms to act if there is not a drop in phone thefts, the policing minister says. Read the full story at BBC News.