A man suspected of a double stabbing has been shot by armed police. Officers were called to a report that a man and a woman had been stabbed in the Tobruk Road area of Huyton, near Liverpool, at ...

The Justice Secretary has announced more emergency measures to curb prison overcrowding as she warned jails are on track to be down to “zero capacity” by November. Shabana Mahmood unveiled changes to ...

Badar Khan Suri was arrested by masked, plain-clothed officers on the evening of March 17 outside his apartment complex in Arlington, Virginia.

The backlash to Sir Keir Starmer’s speech on immigration has been “way overblown”, a senior Cabinet minister has said. The Prime Minister has faced criticism for the language he used in the speech, ...

Great British Energy will not invest in any supply chains that involve slave labour, energy minister Michael Shanks has said, with measures to establish the state-owned energy company on the verge of ...

More than 30,000 people in the UK were infected with viruses, including HIV and hepatitis C, after receiving contaminated blood.

A BORDERS village has been connected to "lightning-fast" broadband. GoFibre announced that Ladykirk is now connected to full-fibre broadband. This means that 76 homes and businesses in the area can ...

Three new prisons will be built starting this year, as part of a “record prison expansion”, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said, as the Government grapples with near-full jails.

Tim FitzHigham, creative director of St George’s Guildhall in King’s Lynn, Norfolk described it as the “dry equivalent of the Mary Rose”. The theatre identified 15th century floorboards believed to ...

Stuart Murdoch, the lead singer of Belle and Sebastian, has joined campaigners to call for urgent action on ME (Myalgic encephalomyelitis). The singer and other people with the condition, which is ...

The Bill, which relates to England and Wales, will come before MPs in the House of Commons on Friday for its report stage.

The building is being constructed on the footprint of Henry III’s medieval Great Sacristy built in the 1250s close to the Abbey walls, and after the unveiling the Queen told the project’s architect ...