The Health Secretary has said failing hospitals will be named and shamed in league tables and NHS managers sacked if they cannot improve.

A domestic abuser who murdered his ex-partner and her new boyfriend should have his whole life sentence reduced as it is “not necessary”, the Court of Appeal has been told. Marcus Osborne was jailed ...

Scotland’s First Minister has given farmers a “cast-iron” guarantee to return £46 million taken from the agriculture budget to combat the cost-of-living crisis. The cash was taken in 2022 and 2023 as ...

The Post Office revealed on Wednesday (November 13) 115 branches across the UK are at risk of closing - see which ones.

The dad of a 10-year-old who was found dead following an alleged campaign of abuse has told jurors he "takes full responsibility" for her death. Taxi driver Urfan Sharif, 42, made the shock admission ...

Artefacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer in the late 1940s as part of the famous Kon-Tiki expedition are being returned to Chile’s Easter Island in the mid-Pacific.

Watson was arrested on July 21 when his ship docked in Nuuk, Greenland’s capital. A Greenland court has repeatedly approved his detention while Danish authorities look into his possible extradition to ...

Beloved actor Timothy West, known for many roles in television and the theatre, has died peacefully in his sleep aged 90 “with his friends and family at the end”, his family said. Mr West was known ...

Actor Timothy West, known for many roles in television and the theatre, has died peacefully in his sleep aged 90 “with his friends and family at the end”, his family said.

Peter Sullivan remains behind bars for the murder of Diane Sindall who was killed on her way home from work in Merseyside in 1986.

Officers received a report of a disturbance at a house on Sceptre Place, in the Elswick area of the city, at 6.30pm on Monday.

Russian forces have struck Kyiv with a sophisticated missile and drone attack for the first time in 73 days, officials said. Air raid warnings blared for hours as Russia targeted eight regions of ...