Tory candidate Andy Street had hoped to cling on in the West Midlands, but Labour challenger Richard Parker beat him with a majority of 1,508 votes.

Kamile Vaicikonyte and her boyfriend Jamie Moore died in a single-vehicle crash on the A5 near Omagh, Co Tyrone on Tuesday.

Airport security officers in Miami found a scaly surprise last week — a bag of snakes hidden in a passenger’s trousers. According to an X post by the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA), ...

Mr Khan addressed the threats, social media abuse, and protests outside his family home and apologised to his wife and children.

A well-known UK-Palestinian surgeon who volunteered in Gaza hospitals said he has been denied entry to France to speak at a senate meeting about the Israel-Hamas war. French authorities did not give a ...

Met Office forecasters said sunny spots could reach 20C even in northern Scotland on Saturday, but there is a “mixed picture” overall.

The removal of single-phrase judgments “has to be a Government decision”, the chief inspector of Ofsted has said. In a speech to school leaders, Sir Martyn Oliver said “so much” of the Government’s ...

Andy Burnham has vowed to “make big things happen” after he was voted in for a third successive term as the mayor of Greater Manchester. Following another resounding victory he said he would continue ...

Labour’s Sadiq Khan has stormed to victory in the London mayoral election, as the contest for the West Midlands remains on a knife edge for Conservative Andy Street. Incumbent mayor Mr Khan beat his ...

Greg Dewhurst, from the Met Office, said there would be ‘plenty of sunshine around, but it will become cloudier the further north you are’.

The government has said it will redraft its Carbon Budget Delivery Plan within 12 months following the court’s decision.

A detached, four-bedroom home with a heated outdoor pool in Spaldwick, near Kimbolton, is up for sale at a guide price of £950,000.