Consular support is being provided to “a number of British nationals and their families” after a tourist yacht sank in the Red Sea off Egypt, the Foreign Office said. There are reports that four ...

A “grown-up debate” is required about the future of the Grangemouth refinery, a senior official from its owners has said. Petroineos announced in September the refinery will close in the second ...

The Government introduced mandatory calorie labelling in England for businesses that serve food in 2022 as part of its national obesity strategy.

The UK Government announced in the summer that winter fuel payment would no longer be universal, scuppering Scottish Government plans.

The leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales has said he wishes Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby was alongside him as the assisted dying debate in Parliament edges closer.

A pub in England has been asked to change its name by PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) due to it being "derogatory" and "unfair" to foxes. The animal rights group has made the ...

Drivers have been warned to avoid a flooded road by an Oxfordshire village. The A4095 by Bladon and Long Harborough has flooded today (Monday, November 25) with the nearby A40 by Cassington and ...

A jury has been sworn in to try the case of Grammy-nominated rapper Slowthai, who is accused of rape. The rapper, whose real name is Tyron Frampton, and his co-accused Alex Blake-Walker, 27, deny ...

Last week Home Office minister Dame Angela Eagle said that asylum hotel use had risen since Labour entered government.

Sinn Fein’s housing spokesman has claimed that handing the housing portfolio to Fianna Fail for another five years would be a “catastrophe”. Eoin O Broin has accused Fianna Fail of overseeing record ...

The local authority has told the Welsh Government the Cwmtillery landslip was a ‘singular wash-out of a former coal tip in the area’.

Childhood can be seen as a biological state but also a social construction. Sociologist, Aries (1960) claims that in Medieval Europe childhood was not considered a separate stage of life. Children ...