Property insurance claim payouts have reached £4.1 billion for the year to date, according to The Association of British Insurers (ABI), the biggest amount for the first nine months of the year since ...

The best-selling virtual building game Minecraft is to become a real-life destination in a deal with UK-based theme park owner Merlin. Merlin, the owner of Legoland, Alton Towers and Thorpe Park, has ...

Sinn Fein has pledged to deliver a mini-budget in its first 100 days of government and “real” cost-of-living measures as it unveiled its election manifesto. Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald said ...

Two suspects in the Salisbury poisoning visited the city “for reconnaissance purposes” the day before former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with Novichok, a senior ...

Tom Curry returns for England’s clash with Japan on Saturday but Immanuel Feyi-Waboso has lost his own race to be fit for the climax to the Autumn Nations Series at Allianz Stadium. Both players were ...

The Health Secretary told the Commons he would ‘grip’ the issue of doctor substitution and transparency for patients.

A person has been taken to hospital after a house fire in Burnley . At around 10.50pm, on November 17, two fire engines from Burnley attended a fire on Queensberry Road. One person was taken to ...

Just hours later the ex-politicians and pro-democracy activists were sentenced to four to 10 years in prison in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case under a Beijing-imposed law that crushed the ...

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has declined to say which way he will vote on the assisted dying debate next week. He said he does not want to put pressure on other MPs by “indicating and adding to ...

Chairman of the National Police Chiefs’ Council Gavin Stephens said responsibilities should be redefined and a new national body set up.

Snowy conditions have forced the closure of more than 200 schools, as fresh weather warnings were issued amid widespread travel disruption. The Met Office has put in place several warnings for snow ...

GPs facing national insurance hikes have been told to “hold tight for funding allocations” by Health Secretary Wes Streeting. Calls have been made for GPs, dentists, hospices, care homes and ...