The upcoming Runcorn and Helsby by-election will run alongside local elections and it is expected to be a tight contest between Labour and Reform UK.

Halle Berry, Jeremy Strong and Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia will be among the jury members at this year’s Cannes Film Festival deciding the Palme d’Or winner. Festival organisers have unveiled the ...

The Foreign Secretary and Mohammad Mustafa signed a memorandum of understanding outlining their commitment to advancing Palestinian statehood.

A teacher and school counsellor has been identified as one of the 11 people killed when a driver ploughed a vehicle through a ...

A lorry driver was caught by police breaching weight restrictions in a Suffolk town. In Leiston town centre, the local weight limit is 7.5 tonnes. The driver was completing a three-point turn in ...

A post-mortem examination report also says he was in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s and was likely to have not eaten for a long time.

The sugar tax applied to fizzy drinks is set to be extended to milkshakes and similar treats under Government proposals. Plans to end the exemption from the levy for dairy-based drinks, as well as non ...

Jess Phillips has suggested she is open to co-operating with Rupert Lowe’s private inquiry into grooming gangs. The Home Office minister said she was “more than happy” to meet the Independent MP to ...

The Kremlin said President Vladimir Putin has ordered a full cessation of hostilities on ‘humanitarian grounds’ for Victory ...

Some 9,885 people had been logged as making the journey from France as of Sunday, according to provisional Home Office figures for 2025.

A man with a “crazed attitude to sex” groomed a schoolgirl and then enjoyed watching others further degrade her in a “den of iniquity”, a judge has said. Ashley Darbyshire, 28, targeted his victim ...

Trees have been uprooted in a series of vandalism at a burial woodland park. Officers have stepped up patrols of the park in Gunton, near Lowestoft, after youths uprooted trees and damaged stakes.