Permission is being sought to exhume Thomas More’s head from a Kent vault, 500 years after it was put on a pike on London Bridge.

A Wimbledon finalist has questioned why the tennis tournament will not close its roof, after sweltering conditions left Centre Court spectators needing medical assistance.

Azroy Dawes-Clarke was an inmate at HMP Elmley, on the Isle of Sheppey, when he died after a ‘restraint-related’ incident.