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

A funeral director is due to enter pleas to 63 charges spanning more than 10 years after a major investigation into human remains found at his premises. Robert Bush, 47, faces 30 counts of preventing ...

TV presenter Jay Blades is due to appear in court charged with rape. West Mercia Police previously said the 55-year-old, who fronted primetime BBC show The Repair Shop, will face a first hearing at ...

A teenage boy who killed elderly dog walker Bhim Kohli is set to have his sentence reviewed at the Court of Appeal on Wednesday. Mr Kohli, 80, was punched and kicked, slapped in the face with a shoe ...

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

US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr toured the CDC campus on Monday, accompanied by deputy secretary Jim O’Neill and CDC ...

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” ...

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

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency said motorists are often ‘first on the scene’ when someone suffers a cardiac arrest.

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.

Using records from the National Disease Registration Service for England and the Welsh Cancer Intelligence and Surveillance Unit, experts estimated net survival for up to 10 years after diagnosis for ...