Council tax bills in England are expected to increase by up to 5% next April, amid Tory warnings that local authorities face a £2.4 billion “black hole”. Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch ...

Sara Sharif’s father has confessed to killing the 10-year-old but insisted he did not mean to “harm” her when he bound and beat her with a cricket bat. Taxi driver Urfan Sharif, 42, had sought to ...

The UK Government announced its decision to relinquish sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius last month.

The witness told the inquiry that a sample of the nerve agent the size of ‘a third to a sixth of a grain of salt’ could be fatal to a human.

Sixteen people suffered minor injuries after a lorry and bus carrying schoolchildren collided in Leicestershire. The bus and the HGV crashed on the A46 northbound near to Syston at around 9.30am on ...

Brian Whitelock is also alleged to have sexually assaulted Wendy Buckney during a sustained attack in her home near Swansea.

The Band and Bugles of The Rifles performed the track ahead of the King attending the Gladiator II premiere on Wednesday evening.

Finlay MacDonald, 41, is accused of a shooting spree on the island on August 10, 2022. He denies a charge of murder, and two charges of attempted murder. He also denies attempting to murder his wife ...

A woman who was with Nikita Hand in the hotel where she claims she was raped by Irish mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor, has told a High Court she was “surprised” to learn of the alleged ...

David Nahle’s father has ignored a High Court order telling him to return the three-year-old to his mother, Catherine Flanagan.

Planning for a “smooth transition” at the Grangemouth refinery should have started five years ago, MSPs have been told. Representatives of Petroineos, which owns the Scottish plant and has announced ...

Sir Keir Starmer resisted pressure from an Independent MP during Prime Minister’s Questions to describe the war in Gaza as “genocide”. When asked for his definition of the word, Sir Keir told the ...