Government U-turns over winter fuel payments and welfare reform have left Chancellor Rachel Reeves with a multibillion-pound fiscal shortfall.

A funeral director is due to enter pleas to 63 charges spanning more than 10 years after a major investigation into human remains found at his premises. Robert Bush, 47, faces 30 counts of preventing ...

TV presenter Jay Blades is due to appear in court charged with rape. West Mercia Police previously said the 55-year-old, who fronted primetime BBC show The Repair Shop, will face a first hearing at ...

Donate-a-phone schemes and computer workshops will receive Government backing worth £9.5 million, as part of a plan to help older people and low-income households access an “essential for modern life” ...

NHS Blood and Transplant are trying to encourage more people aged 50 and over to join the NHS Organ Donor Register.

Neighbourhood policing is "back" in County Durham and Darlington - with named police officers now stationed in every community. Residents in every part of the region now have a contactable police ...

The project, led by Heriot-Watt University and involving researchers from the University of Edinburgh, Napier University and the University of Stirling, aims to help people with h ...

A total of 13,109 British drivers were convicted of the offence in 2024, official data obtained by the RAC revealed.

Rare species from water voles to adders across England have been helped with cash from the Species Recovery Programme’s capital grants scheme.

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency said motorists are often ‘first on the scene’ when someone suffers a cardiac arrest.

Live facial recognition will be expanded across the country as part of a Government overhaul of neighbourhood policing. The technology will be deployed to catch “high-harm” offenders, with new rules ...

The fourth heatwave of the summer will continue on Wednesday with temperatures expected to climb to 34C in parts of England. An amber heat health alert remains in place for the West Midlands, East ...