The Government is prepared to ‘robustly defend’ its plan in court if migrants challenge being sent back to France.

Gordon Brown has said Chancellor Rachel Reeves should exempt the Government’s defence spending pledge from her borrowing rules to help free up economic headroom. The former prime minister said the ...

A “rare” first edition of JRR Tolkien book The Hobbit discovered during a house clearance in Bristol has sold at auction for £43,000. It is one of only 1,500 copies printed in September 1937, ...

Police investigating after an eight-year-old boy was sexually assaulted in his tent at a campsite have seized more than 1,500 hours of CCTV footage. Officers have also visited almost 100 properties as ...

A wanted man from north Dorset has been found and arrested, police said. Officers searching for Nicholas Castle have confirmed he has been located and arrested. The 28-year-old was wanted in ...

A meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump would be their first since Mr Trump returned to office this year.

Halifax said on Thursday house prices were 2.4% higher compared with July last year, slowing from June's 2.7% increase. The housing market has settled after a rush to beat the expiry in April of a tax ...

Dr Phoenix's husband, Ian, who was a a detective superintendent in the Royal Ulster Constabulary, was among those killed. The incident was initially blamed on pilot error before being overturned in ...

Because of record global heat in 2023 and 2024, the world is still going through its biggest – and fourth ever recorded – mass coral bleaching event on record, with heat stress hurting nearly 84% of ...

The average house price jumped by 0.4% or more than £1,000 in cash terms in July, Halifax has reported. Across the UK, the average property value in July was £298,237, up from £297,157 in June.

Mr Trump has promoted the tariffs as a way to reduce the persistent trade deficit. But importers sought to avoid the taxes by importing more goods before the taxes went into effect. As a result, the ...

The National Police confirmed that a tourist broke the rules during the Virgen del Carmen festival in Puerto de la Cruz on July 1 ...