Fire has broken out 45 times in the Palace of Westminster over the last decade ... said he was “horrified”. The peer, who ...

waves me through the Peers’ Lobby and with an informal “This way!” called over her shoulder, she presses onward and upward into the Gothic gold and stone splendour of Westminster Palace’s innards.

Police detain a man after he scales the Elizabeth Tower in Westminster on Saturday morning. The protester came down just after midnight, after telling negotiators he would stop "on his own terms".