German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced that he will ask for a vote of confidence on December 16, paving the way forward for an early parliamentary election in February. Mr Scholz declared his ...

Train and bus performance statistics will be “plastered on the walls” of Department for Transport (DfT) offices, a Cabinet minister has said. Transport Secretary Louise Haigh told MPs she wants to ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Taxi driver Urfan Sharif, 42, made the admission under cross-examination as his wife Beinash Batool, 30, sobbed in the dock of the Old Bailey.

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.