The Government will be listening to people, businesses and charities with concerns around noisy fireworks, a minister has said, following calls to limit sales. In the Commons, business minister Justin ...

Nearly half a million shoplifting offences were recorded by police in England and Wales in a year, the highest 12-month total on record, figures show. A total of 492,914 offences were logged by forces ...

New data from NHS England shows an average of 898 hospital beds were filled each day last week by patients with diarrhoea and vomiting or norovirus-like symptoms, up 15% from 784 the previous week.

A union has criticised plans to make almost 100 redundancies at mapping service Ordnance Survey. Prospect said laying off 95 skilled staff was “short sighted” and counter to the Government’s growth ...

Salwan Momika, 38, got worldwide publicity and caused anger in Muslim countries when he burned the religion’s holy book.

The number of mortgage approvals to home buyers edged upwards month-on-month in December, according to Bank of England figures. Some 66,526 deals got the green light, up from 66,061 the previous month ...

The decision to grant consent to the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields will now be reconsidered, taking into account downstream emissions.

Shyam Rana, Anna Daniell and Melanie Johnson have been recognised with the Humanitarian Medal for their responses to major disasters.

Last April, a magnitude 7.4 quake hit the island’s mountainous eastern coastal county of Hualien, killing at least 13 people, injuring more than 1,000 others, collapsing a hotel and forcing the ...

France and Wales kick off the 2025 Guinness Six Nations when they meet in Paris on Friday night. Les Bleus are overwhelming favourites to continue Wales’ long Test match losing run that began against ...

Morgan Rogers says scoring a hat-trick to fire Aston Villa into the last 16 of the Champions League is a night he will “remember forever”. Rogers grabbed the matchball in a 4-2 win over Celtic which ...

Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla is accused of inciting violence during riots in July 2021 which led to the deaths of more than 350 people.