Rachel Reeves has sidestepped calls to help those in fuel and food poverty by reversing winter fuel allowance cuts and the two-child benefit cap. The Chancellor said she would “never” make a policy ...

Charity Howard League for Penal Reform has sent a letter before claim to Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood urging her to withdraw the decision.

A BBC programme which aired a claim that Gerry Adams sanctioned the killing of a spy would “probably” not have breached broadcasting regulations and was not “unfair or unjust”, a media expert has told ...

Jennie Logan, 30, of Oxfordshire County Council’s Fire and Rescue Service, was praised by her family for her ‘bravery and fearlessness’.

Qualified GPs are being forced to “consider employment benefits” as a direct result of an “unemployment crisis” in the sector, leading medics have warned. The British Medical Association (BMA) said ...

Daniel Tatters, whose DNA was found on a lighter at the scene, and look-out Dale Francis will be sentenced on Thursday for killing Akashdeep Singh.

Sir Adrian Montague said he may have ‘misspoken’ during an Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Efra) committee session with MPs last week.

A domestic abuse victim who stabbed her partner multiple times with a kitchen knife while he slept has been jailed for a minimum of 12 years. Julie Anne McIlwaine 34, from Hazel Close, Lagmore, in ...

Essex bowler Cook received a long-awaited call-up after several years as one of county cricket’s most reliable wicket-takers.

A care home boss said 92-year-old Donald Burgess looked ‘possessed’ before the alleged assault by police officers, ...

A British man on trial for drug offences has pleaded for leniency in a court on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali after a charge that could carry the death penalty was dropped.

A Conservative councillor said he is “heartbroken” that his wife’s appeal bid against her 31-month sentence for inciting racial hatred has been dismissed at the Court of Appeal.