Angela Rayner is set to announce plans to build 180,000 new social homes in the next decade as the Government seeks to “turn the tide on the housing crisis”. The figure would be six times the number ...

Former Irish swimming coach George Gibney has been arrested in the US on foot of an Irish extradition warrant. Mr Gibney, who had sex offence charges against him dismissed in the 1990s, has lived in ...

A 26-year-old man was arrested in connection with the incident after West Mercia Police officers attended HMP Stoke Heath.

The abusive birth mother of double amputee Tony Hudgell has been released from jail early. Jody Simpson, from Whitstable, was ...

Five suspected stolen caravans have been recovered and three people arrested during a police crackdown. The first came after ...

The Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill passed its first legislative hurdle at Westminster.

MPs have voted to allow the Government’s Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill to advance to the next stage in becoming law.

The BBC has faced strong criticism for continuing to livestream the performance of punk rap duo Bob Vylan at the festival on iPlayer.

A huge mound of fly-tipped waste was dumped in a country lane, blocking access to homes and businesses, on the night of ...

A 92-year-old man will die in prison after being convicted of the rape and murder of a widow in 1967, in what is thought to ...

A spokesperson for the group said activists are ‘successfully disrupting’ business-as-usual at Elbit Systems in Bristol.

Christopher Brain, 68, from Wilmslow, Cheshire, was leader of the evangelical movement the Nine O’Clock Service.