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

The singer rose to stardom at the age of 16 after joining the boy band on the ITV singing competition in 2010.

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

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

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Counter terrorism police are investigating whether Russian spies planted a bomb in a parcel that caught fire at a delivery warehouse after arriving on a plane to Britain. Fire crews and staff tackled ...

Former One Direction star Liam Payne has died after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in Argentina. Local police said the 31-year-old fell into the courtyard of the Casa Sur Hotel in the ...

The excavation at the world-famous site near Inverness, which witnessed the final battle of the Jacobite rising in 1746, is ...

The social media platform said it is using expert guidance to train technology to spot scam accounts and prevent them from contacting teenage users.

Earlier this week, gambling firms saw their shares tumble amid fears the Government is planning to double some taxes on the industry.

The pilot who survived the Shoreham Airshow Disaster which killed 11 men will never fly again after aviation bosses upheld their decision to take away his flying licences. Andy Hill, 60, has lost his ...

Marks and Spencer has officially announced that the Crawley branch, which has been in Queensway for decades, will soon close its doors for good.