The Scottish Government’s devolved version of the winter fuel payment will match the value of the UK benefit, John Swinney has announced. Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirmed last week that the payment ...

Los Angeles and Anmaat will meet again in an eagerly anticipated renewal of the Prince of Wales’s Stakes on Wednesday – but White Birch is an absentee. The three classy older horses all met in the ...

Owen Farrell has rejoined Saracens from French club Racing 92. The former England captain called time on his 16-year stay with the Gallagher Premiership side at the end of last season. But fly-half ...

Michaela Boor, 30, died in March 2018 after she was hit by the bricks that fell from a tower crane as she walked along a pavement in Bethnal Green.

Research indicates that almost 800 babies were buried in a sewerage system at the St Mary’s home in Tuam, Co Galway between 1925 and 1961.

The latest arrests include a man, aged in his 20s, who has been detained in relation to an arson attack on Larne Leisure Centre.

The search for a person who fell overboard from a ferry in the Firth of Clyde has been suspended, the coastguard said. A major search was launched after the alarm was raised on Sunday afternoon, with ...

Sheriff Peter Paterson sentenced Hogg to a community payback order with one year of supervision as an alternative to jail when he sentenced him in January. Stuart Hogg’s parents ...

A road by a New Beckenham station has been closed by the police as they investigate a crash. Live updates here.

The world is “on the brink” of extraordinary destabilisation in the Middle East, Ireland’s deputy premier has said. It comes as the EU Foreign Affairs Council has called an emergency meeting to ...

Reporter Ezekiel Bertrand visited Highgate Cemetery and saw the graves of Karl Marx, George Eliot, Douglas Adams and Sex Pistols manager ...

Thameslink trains face "major disruption" after a person was hit between Luton and St Pancras International. Live updates here.