Some 68,265,200 people were likely to have been resident in the UK in the middle of last year, up 662,400 from 67,602,800 12 ...

FIREFIGHTERS were called to an Aga fire in North Newton, near Bridgwater, in the early hours of Sunday morning (October 6). Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service responded to the incident at 4.42am.

Murdo Fraser remains responsible for business, the economy and tourism, while Meghan Gallacher is now housing spokeswoman.

The ringleader of a plot to smuggle £76 million of cocaine into Britain from Ecuador in consignments of bananas is appealing against his 20-year prison sentence. James Stevenson, 59, known as The ...

A further vote by MPs on Wednesday will reduce the field to a final two who will then go to a ballot of Tory members.

Downing Street insisted the Government would ‘absolutely deliver’ on its pledge to restore economic stability.

A yellow weather warning for heavy showers and thunderstorms has been issued by the Met Office which advises that flooding and damage could be caused by storms. An area stretching from Dorset to Kent ...

YouGov’s latest polling appears to show Labour’s honeymoon period in office has ended, with all Cabinet ministers judged unfavourably by ...

The Scottish Hospitals Inquiry is investigating the construction of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow.

Kashmir’s biggest political party has won the most seats in the election for a largely powerless local government in Indian-controlled Kashmir, official data showed on Tuesday. The vote was seen as a ...

Iwao Hakamada was sentenced to death for the murders of four people in 1966 but was not executed, due to Japan’s lengthy appeal and ...

South-eastern Morocco’s desert is among the most arid places in the world and rarely experiences rain in late summer.