The four remaining leadership candidates have already begun setting out their stalls ahead of the Conservatives’ conference in Birmingham.

The star of screen and stage, who died in hospital on Friday aged 89, portrayed Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham in the hit ITV drama.

Two consecutive Russian attacks on a medical centre in the north-eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy has killed at least eight people. The first strike killed one person and Russia attacked again while ...

Andrew Brewer of Ennis Barton, Fraddon, a dairy farmer supplying Arla UK, has won the Carbon Farmer of the Year competition. Andrew manages 500 Jersey-cross dairy cows on 400a.

Police have seized cocaine worth an estimated £600,000 after a car was searched. Officers stopped a vehicle on the A702 in Abington, Lanarkshire on Friday afternoon, with the drugs found when they ...