The Home Secretary has defended the Government’s expansion of live facial recognition technology as a “targeted” crackdown on high-harm offenders, amid concerns over privacy.

Plans to turn the 162-year-old Corner Pin pub into a bedsit for up to 11 people have been rejected by Flintshire planners.

Drivers in France are being advised to stay off the road between noon and 4pm local time and cover their rear windows because of soaring temperatures. The guidance comes as thousands of UK motorists ...

For 2024-25, Scotland has a net fiscal deficit of minus £26.5 billion – an increase of £5.1 billion from the previous year – with this the representing minus 11.7% of the country’s GDP. The UK deficit ...

Oasis gave an even more ground-shaking performance at Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Stadium than their 2009 show when they played there this month, according to analysis of seismic data.

Foreign Secretary David Lammy failed to catch any fish when he hosted JD Vance at his grace-and-favour retreat at Chevening House, Kent.

Terry McMillan, 58, and Brendan McMillan, 27, died after reports of multiple stabbings at a commercial property on July 28.

TV presenter Jay Blades has appeared in court via videolink charged with two counts of rape. The 55-year-old, who fronted primetime BBC show The Repair Shop, spoke only to confirm his name, address ...

Actress Michelle Keegan is to play a police detective inspector in a new ITV crime drama that explores misogyny and police corruption. In The Blame, former Coronation Street actress Keegan stars as DI ...

US actress Zoe Kravitz has revealed she “destroyed” Taylor Swift’s bathroom while retrieving her mother’s snake from a hole it had slithered into. The Batman actress, 36, said she moved into Swift’s ...

A suicidal father who attempted to murder his two-year-old son by walking in front of a train while carrying the child after learning his ex-partner had moved on has been jailed for 10 years.

Backbench Welsh Labour politician Hefin David has died suddenly, the First Minister of Wales has confirmed. Eluned Morgan, the Welsh Labour leader, paid tribute to the Caerphilly MS, who has been a ...