Richard Hughes told a briefing in Liverpool that the projected rise in state pension spending would contributed to growing UK national debt.

A report into the Post Office Horizon scandal “shows the full scale of the horror” unleashed on people just trying to do a day’s work, a former subpostmistress has said. Jo Hamilton was falsely ...

Avon Coroner’s Court heard how Conroy moved to Alexandra House two months before the murder after trying to strangle a teacher at a residential school. He had also previously tried to kill his mother.

Mandatory work breaks were imposed in several regions, mostly on islands and parts of central Greece, where temperatures exceeded 40C.

The public is being asked not to lay floral tributes to mark a year since the Southport knife attack but to donate to charitable causes instead. Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie ...

The FCA said Monzo’s financial crime systems and controls ‘failed to keep pace’ with its rapid growth in customers numbers in recent years.

French president Emmanuel Macron said talks with the UK would also cover defence, security and nuclear energy.

Former captain Farrell is eligible for England again after agreeing a return to Saracens for next season from Racing 92.

Almost 40% of Scottish respondents to a survey on workplace sexual harassment have reported inappropriate touching. The survey, run by trade union Unite, polled more than 6,000 women across the UK – 1 ...

There is a “clear association” between where you live and your risk of dying prematurely, with factors such as deprivation and ethnicity accounting for much of the difference across local areas, a new ...

The inquiry chairman said those caught up in the scandal will have ‘found the experience to be troubling at best and harrowing at worst’.

England has had the hottest spring and the driest for more than a century, with northern areas drought-stricken.