Wes Streeting has described nurses as “the backbone of our NHS” after a staff member was left in a critical condition by a stabbing in a hospital’s A&E department.

Police were called at 10.35pm on Saturday to reports of gun shots being fired in separate incidents in Hackney, east London.

Firefighters scrambled on Sunday to make further progress against wildfires that have killed 16 people in the Los Angeles area as forecasters again warned of dangerous weather with the return of ...