Homebase could be heading for a partial collapse, putting thousands of jobs at risk, amid reports that the chain has appointed insolvency experts with a potential buyer of parts of its 130-store ...

There is no “tension” between plans to make savings from limiting winter fuel allowance to the poorest pensioners and more people taking up pension credit, Liz Kendall has signalled. The winter fuel ...

Taxi driver Urfan Sharif, 42, made the admission under cross-examination as his wife Beinash Batool, 30, sobbed in the dock of the Old Bailey.

Officers received a report of a disturbance at a house on Sceptre Place, in the Elswick area of the city, at 6.30pm on Monday.

Russian forces have struck Kyiv with a sophisticated missile and drone attack for the first time in 73 days, officials said. Air raid warnings blared for hours as Russia targeted eight regions of ...

The Post Office is looking to offload 115 branches, putting around 1,000 workers at risk, with hundreds of head office roles also under threat.

An Israeli strike on a home in northern Gaza has killed three siblings aged six and under, Palestinian medics said. The children are among at least six people killed in air strikes in the war-ravaged ...

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has repeatedly said the palliative care system is not ‘where it needs to be to give people a real choice’.

A man found dead at an immigration detention centre is believed to have died from unnatural causes, a coroner has said. Theophile Kaliviotis was in custody at Brook House immigration removal centre ...

A bishop specialising in safeguarding has said other people in the Church of England might need to quit following the Archbishop of Canterbury’s resignation over an abuse scandal. Bishop of Birkenhead ...

Wes Streeting has hinted at extra cash for GPs and hospices who face being hit by the Budget’s rise in national insurance. The Health Secretary said there would be no formal exemption for the rise ...

An independent review of rail fare prosecutions and enforcement has been ordered by the Government following claims of train operators taking disproportionate action. Transport Secretary Louise Haigh ...