With more results still to come, Labour has hailed a big by-election win while the Tories welcomed a mayoral win in Teesside.

A lorry driver jailed for his part in a lucrative people-smuggling operation that ended in the tragic deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants in an airtight container in Essex has been moved to a prison in ...

Rishi Sunak has acknowledged a “disappointing” series of local election results after the Conservatives suffered defeats across the country. But the Prime Minister insisted he was “focused completely ...

Rail passengers are bracing for eight days of disruption as bank holiday engineering work runs into the next round of industrial action by train drivers. Network Rail said it will carry out 487 ...

Ireland’s premier has described a suggestion that his government could sign up to the UK’s Rwanda scheme as “more satire than news”. Simon Harris dismissed the idea as he made clear Ireland would ...

Presumptive SNP leader and first minister John Swinney has been urged by the Scottish Conservatives to drop his party’s push for independence and refuse to work with the Greens. In a letter likely to ...

Daniel Lingham, 71, had served two prison sentences for his illegal egg collecting before he was caught on a wildlife trap camera last year.

The King received a hug from niece Zara Tindall when he braved the rain to visit the Royal Windsor Horse Show. Charles made his third public visit of the week to tour the popular equestrian attraction ...

Ireland’s premier Simon Harris hailed the impact of the return of the powersharing institutions at Stormont as he began his first official visit to Northern Ireland. Mr Harris met with Stormont ...

Civil servant Karen Pearson said she believed the suggestion was a ‘snapshot of how difficult things were at that time’.