A study by the GMB revealed that since 2012, almost 600,000 council jobs had gone. The union said that 13 years ago, local authorities in England and Wales employed 1,894,700 workers, but by 2024 the ...

Parents will no longer be “hamstrung by rigid school hours”, the Prime Minister has said as 750 schools open new free breakfast clubs on Tuesday. The new clubs, providing 30 minutes of morning ...

Drivers across England say they are being sent demands for up to £170 from private parking companies because of faulty machines. The PA news agency has spoken to motorists in several regions who ...

Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes was shot seven times by police in Stockwell underground station in July 2005.

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp said the announcement showed Labour had ‘buckled’ under pressure from the Conservatives to disclose the data.

The piece took the number one slot in the annual Classic FM Hall Of Fame ballot, with 90,000 votes cast by the public.

A UK theologian who had worked closely with the Pope has described an atmosphere of shock, sadness and gratitude in Rome on ...

Francis, who died following a stroke aged 88 on Easter Monday just a day after greeting crowds in Vatican City, drew tributes for his strong advocacy for the poor and marginalised. The leader of the ...

Pope Francis died this morning (April 21) and the Vatican has announced his cause of death was a cerebral stroke.

“The historic annual Hallaton Bottle Kicking is an Easter tradition like no other, as the villages of Hallaton and Medbourne battle it out to get three barrels, known as bottles, from the starting ...

Chief Superintendent Gillian Kearney criticised the involvement of young people during the disorder as ‘child criminal exploitation’.