Britons survived sweltering temperatures during the days of empire, a Tory former minister has said as he cautioned against taking the threat of extreme heat “overseriously”.

Champion jockey Oisin Murphy has been charged with drink driving after a car left a West Berkshire road and crashed into a tree.

Since Donald Trump’s tariff announcements in April, the UK has reached new agreements with the US, India and the EU.

A 15-year-old girl was strip searched by officers in Hackney, east London, in December 2020, after being wrongly accused of carrying cannabis.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is in talks with Labour rebels over concessions to save the Government’s welfare reform package. The talks ahead of Tuesday’s Commons showdown come after 126 Labour MPs ...

First Minister John Swinney has said it would be “reasonable” for a former principal of the cash-strapped University of Dundee to return a £150,000 payment he received when he stepped down.

Reanne Coulson, 34, has been missing from Coventry since May 21 and her family have pleaded for information about her whereabouts.

The claimants include the family of former England midfielder Norbert ‘Nobby’ Stiles, who died in 2020 after suffering from dementia.

Geoffrey Roberts said it was important for Second World War veterans to be recognised ‘for the ones who didn’t come home’.

Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey has cautioned over growing evidence that employment tax hikes are hitting pay and jobs rather than leading to price hikes, but said there is greater “uncertainty ...

A man has been jailed for 12 years for killing his elderly neighbour in a row over shutting a gate. Trevor Gocan, 57, punched and kicked James “Jim” O’Neill, 74, outside their housing estate in Covent ...

Plans to regulate the use of pedicabs in London are set to advance next year, following a consultation that has found overwhelming support for tougher safety standards. The consultation, carried out ...