Minimum wage rates are to increase next year, giving a pay rise for millions of workers, the government has announced.

Around 150 firefighters and 25 fire engines were called to the fire in London warehouse which may contain fireworks, the London Fire Brigade said.

The ceremony is a formality dating back to the Reformation and saw the College of Canons of Canterbury Cathedral meeting to ...

Controversial plans to scrap jury trials except in the most serious cases have surfaced - on the same day a Kent judge ...

The Prince of Wales was hugged by a well-wisher when he stepped onto a Welsh beach to thank young marine conservationists for ...

Three people have been charged in connection with alleged offences under the Terrorism Act after a protest in Edinburgh in ...

Wycliffe star Jack Shepherd has died at the age of 85. The English actor died following a “short illness”, his family said in a statement shared with the PA news agency. The Leeds-born TV star was ...

Plans to turn a former bank into a restaurant and to put solar panels on a church roof are among the latest applications lodged with a council.

Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson said he is “heartbroken” as he announced his wife Joan Templeman has died. The couple married in 1989 and share two children, Holly and Sam. Writing on social ...

Some 30 soldiers became ill when training to use the armoured fighting vehicle over the weekend, and Ajax has now been paused ...

Jahmell Campbell was at his grandmother’s flat in Catford, south-east London, when his e-scooter burst into flames.

A 75-year-old man has been charged under the Terrorism Act 2000 after his arrest at a Palestine Action protest.