Edinburgh and Birmingham airports have become the latest airports to allow passengers to keep liquids in their bags when going through security.

It comes as education unions have raised concerns about the statutory tests taken by Year 6 pupils in primary schools across England.

More than 900 subpostmasters were wrongfully prosecuted between 1999 and 2015, with many wrongly convicted of theft and false accounting.

Heidi Alexander said the Government would publish estimates in March for how long the schemes will take to deliver.

As Conservative Party chairman, Norman Tebbit masterminded Margaret Thatcher’s third general election victory despite tensions with the PM.