Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham claimed it will be ‘harder to get a seat’ on trains heading north once HS2 opens.

The latest threat by Kim Jong Un’s powerful sister came after North Korea raised regional tensions by unveiling a uranium-enrichment facility.

Defence Secretary John Healey is expected to chair a Cobra meeting on Tuesday amid rising tensions in the Middle East, the PA news agency understands. The emergency meeting in London will take place ...

A mother left her four young sons home alone to go shopping “several” times before they were killed in a house fire while she was at Sainsbury’s, their great-grandmother has said.

Graham Stacey set up the fundraiser to help repair the club after it appeared to have a sinkhole in the pitch.

The chairwoman of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has expressed concern at the possibility that statistics around ethnic background are not compiled in the Northern Ireland health service. The issue arose ...

Figures for the number of miners inside the mine at the time have fluctuated since a methane gas leak on Saturday sparked an explosion.

A teacher who was found not guilty of a racially aggravated public order offence after holding a placard at a pro-Palestine protest depicting Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman as coconuts has made a ...

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden said the broad coalition of voters which led to the 2024 landslide should be maintained.

A senior paediatrician said he could not imagine a more serious concern than “mystery” outbreaks of infection at a superhospital, an inquiry heard. Dr Alan Mathers, chief of medicine for women and ...

A man smashed a sculpture by Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei during the private opening of his exhibition in the northern Italian city of Bologna, in an act of vandalism that the show’s curator ...