A total of nine trial dates were set before Dr Peter Brooks was eventually convicted of attempting to murder Graeme Perks.

Conservative MP Martin Vickers led calls in the Commons for the British Steel site to be nationalised on a temporary basis.

The Prime Minister also announced new investment of ‘up to £600 million’ into Britain’s life sciences industry.

Stocks are sharply swinging on Wall Street as markets try to assess the potential damage from US President Donald Trump’s global trade war. The Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly erased a morning ...