Magistrates’ sentencing powers will be doubled again in a bid to cut the court backlog and ease overcrowding in jails. The move, confirmed by Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood on Thursday, means ...

One in 10 homes (11) with a household income of less than £20,000 a year already owe money to their energy supplier ahead of winter, Uswitch found.

Services will not run on two major London rail routes from St Pancras - Thameslink and East Midlands Railways - this weekend due to ...

Around 158,000 pupils were severely absent – missing at least half of possible school sessions – over the autumn and spring terms of 2022/23.

Adam Azim is out to emulate his idol Amir Khan and be the next trailblazer for British Asians in boxing. The 22-year-old has long been tipped as a future world champion and is trending in the right ...

United Utilities did not report at least 102 million litres of illegal sewage pollution to regulators, a BBC analysis found.

The safety of patients and staff is being put at risk by NHS buildings that are “falling apart”, according to health senior health leaders.

The excavation at the world-famous site near Inverness, which witnessed the final battle of the Jacobite rising in 1746, is combining traditional archaeological methods with techniques developed ...

Over half of supermarket food and drink is packaged in unnecessary plastic, that’s according to new analysis which has highlighted up to ...

Auditions for the new series of Britain's Got Talent on ITV have been postponed following the death of former One Direction singer Liam Payne.

Abbas Araghchi held talks with his Egyptian counterpart Badr Abdelatty and Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi in Cairo on Thursday.