Daily roundup: housing benefit, Hamzah Khan and Colin Green

One in three council house tenants affected by a recent cut to housing benefit has fallen behind on rent since the policy took effect, figures from the Trades Union Congress show. Data provided by 114 councils that responded to a TUC Freedom of Information requests revealed 50,000 tenants had fallen into arrears since 1 April 2013 when the housing benefit changes came in. The policy, dubbed the "bedroom tax", sees housing benefit cut to tenants in a council or housing association property deemed to have extra bedrooms they do not need.

A mummified, stunted corpse of a four-year-old boy lay undiscovered for nearly two years in his mother's house before he was found by police, a court was told on Wednesday. Hamzah Khan's body, starved by years of neglect, was clothed in a sleep suit designed for a baby aged six to nine months when police made the discovery at his home in Bradford, West Yorkshire, reports the Guardian. His mother, 43-year-old Amanda Hutton, who is on trial at Bradford crown court, denies Hamzah's manslaughter.