The UK’s asylum system now costs £5 billion – the highest level of spending on record and up by more than a third in a year. Home Office spending on asylum rose by £1.43 billion, up 36% from £3.95 ...

The tie-up, announced in May, will create a banking giant with millions of customers and about £89 billion worth of assets.

Just 42,500 applications have been approved since July, when the Government said almost 900,000 households were missing out on the benefit.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission said Parliament needs adequate time to scrutinise the proposed legislation.

BELGIAN World Cup hero Marc Degryse reckons Celtic star Daizen Maeda scored the 'perfect goal' and admitted he couldn't believe how he managed it. The Japanese ace rescued a point for the Hoops with a ...

A group of 80 musicians and politicians wrote a letter to UK Billionaire Richard Branson to demand payments for their ...

Claims for pension credit have increased by 145 perc cent since the Government announced it would means test the winter fuel payment, ...

BBC Radio 2 presenter Zoe Ball has revealed she suffers from temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorder, in a post on Instagram.

Decisions about assisted dying should be made on a “secular basis”, a Government minister said ahead of MPs voting on the issue on Friday. Home Office minister Seema Malhotra acknowledged that “people ...

The US conservative political commentor Candace Owens has been refused a visa to enter New Zealand for a speaking engagement because she had been banned from another country, immigration officials ...

A police officer who shocked a 95-yer-old nursing home resident with a Taser has been found guilty of manslaughter in an Australian court. A jury found Kristian James Samuel White guilty in the trial ...

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