The Scottish Secretary is to visit the Navantia UK yard in Methil, Fife, on Tuesday, where the £8 million 1,400 tonne barge is being built.

Ministers are also said to be mulling over plans to place a retirement age of 80 on members of the House of Lords.

Food inflation lifted to 4.2 this month from 4 in July, according to according to the British Retail Consortium-NIQ Shop Price Monitor.

Reform UK, which has sought to gain from public dissatisfaction about migration, will reveal its plans to tackle the small boats crisis.

A British explorer is attempting to travel the full length of one of the longest rivers in the world. Ash Dykes, 34, will journey 3,400 miles (5,400km) along China’s Yellow River, from its source to ...