Government U-turns over winter fuel payments and welfare reform have left Chancellor Rachel Reeves with a multibillion-pound fiscal shortfall.

Some of the 800 National Guard members deployed by US president Donald Trump began arriving in the nation’s capital on ...

Nicholas Rossi was extradited from Scotland to the US in January 2024 after a lengthy case in the Scottish courts.

Donate-a-phone schemes and computer workshops will receive Government backing worth £9.5 million, as part of a plan to help older people and low-income households access an “essential for modern life” ...

Live facial recognition will be expanded across the country as part of a Government overhaul of neighbourhood policing. The technology will be deployed to catch “high-harm” offenders, with new rules ...

A total of 13,109 British drivers were convicted of the offence in 2024, official data obtained by the RAC revealed.

Rare species from water voles to adders across England have been helped with cash from the Species Recovery Programme’s capital grants scheme.

Progress in cancer survival rates in the UK has “slowed down”, experts have warned. The news comes as a study suggests survival between the most and least deadly types of the disease is wider than ...

A Conservative spokesman said Kemi Badenoch’s team had spoken to Mr Vance’s but that ‘scheduling’ had proved difficult.

Four people have been arrested in connection with a burglary earlier this summer at a Los Angeles home reportedly owned by actor Brad Pitt, police said. Officers responded on June 25 to a break-in at ...

US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr toured the CDC campus on Monday, accompanied by deputy secretary Jim O’Neill and CDC director Susan Monarez, according to a health agency statement. “No-one ...

A spokesperson Tweeddale Peace Group said: “On Hiroshima Day, members of Tweeddale Peace Group gathered round the peace tree on the Tweed riverbank for a silent vigil to commemorate the day and to ...