Labour is waging a “war on rural England” with its overhaul of planning rules, the Tories have argued. Shadow housing secretary Kevin Hollinrake claimed the “majority” of homes built to reach the ...

The voluntary job losses are intended to create a ‘clearer structure’ for the Cabinet Office, which sits at the heart of government.

The prosecution alleges the musician, whose real name is Tyron Frampton, and his friend Alex Blake-Walker raped two women at a house party.

Provisional Home Office figures show 33,973 people have arrived in the UK after making the crossing so far this year.

Pope Francis has called on wealthy countries and institutions to substantially reduce, if not outright cancel, debt as a matter of justice on the occasion of the Vatican’s 2025 Jubilee Year. In a ...

NHS England has published its latest monthly performance data for hospitals along with this week’s snapshot of winter virus levels and A&E pressures. Here are the key figures from both reports: An ...

SOMERSET has got an initial verdict of whether snow will hit the county according to the Met Office. Somewhat less intuitive than the BBC's easily navigable website, the government-run Met Office is ...

Shadow Commons leader Jesse Norman has described the Government’s plan for change as a “fine, fat Herefordshire beef cow” due to it being “full of nutrition but with a certain amount of unnecessary ...

Glendian Daci, 26, and Aurel Xhoka, 33, pleaded guilty last month to producing the controlled class B drug in Greenock, Inverclyde.

Levi Fishlock was jailed for nine years over his role in the disorder outside the Holiday Inn Express at Manvers, Rotherham.

And 2024 is almost certain to exceed 1.5C above pre-industrial levels for the first time in a ‘sobering milestone in climate history’.

Ukraine’s stretched defences in Donetsk have been creaking since early this year under a fierce Russian drive.