An "emergency alert" test that sounds a siren for ten seconds will be sent to millions of phones across the UK this year. In line with recommendations from the Covid inquiry, ministers will test ...

For nearly 30 years, the AMBER Alert has helped locate hundreds of children, but one of its founders believes changes should be made to make the emergency alert system more effective.

When it was last tested in 2023, the alert read: “This is a test of Emergency Alerts, a new UK government service that will ...