Milton has rapidly strengthened to become a Category 5 hurricane as it heads towards population centres in the US state of ...

An explosion which ripped through flats leaving one man dead and three people injured created a “deafening noise”, a restaurant manager has said. Emergency services were called to the scene in Alloa, ...

General Secretary of NASUWT – The Teachers’ Union, Dr Patrick Roach, has today announced he will not be seeking a further term as General Secretary.Dr Roach told members, staff and activists that the ...

Report shows 90 of English salmon rivers and all of those in Wales have fish numbers below minimum sustainable levels.

Former Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick has been charged with a string of sex offences against two women, including rape and sexual assault. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Carrick ...

Northern Ireland’s First Minister Michelle O’Neill has said she is “deeply sorry” for damage caused to the reputation of a charity which employed a former Sinn Fein press officer who was under ...

Slimming down the winter fuel payment will “add insult to injury”, an MP has warned, while another asked the Government to put a figure on how many pensioner deaths “will occur” as a result of the ...

Ian Paterson, who is serving a 20-year jail term, is due to give evidence to a pre-inquest hearing later this week.

A brown bear is set for brain surgery this week in the first operation of its kind in the UK. Boki, a brown bear at the Wildwood Trust, near Canterbury, Kent, will be operated on later this week after ...

Emma Little-Pengelly has urged Michelle O’Neill and Sinn Fein to demonstrate openness and candour over their former employee.

Mason Rist, 15, and Max Dixon, 16, were attacked in the Knowle West area of Bristol on the evening of January 27 this year.

The study suggests it would be optimistic if 15 of females and 5 of males could live to 100 years old in most countries this century.