France’s interior minister has said a huge wildfire has stopped growing after forcing 220,000 people out of their homes in ...

A man has been told he may never be released from prison following the “bestial” rape of a 15-year-old girl in Edinburgh. Aaron Strachan, 21, stalked, abducted and raped the teenager in the York Place ...

Patient Focused Ambulance (PFA), a private ambulance service, have had their base damaged by the explosion at Highlands Farm ...

The cost of benchmark Brent crude dropped 8 to 87.55 US dollars a barrel at one stage in ongoing heightened volatility in oil and gas markets.

Parents are being urged to claim Child Benefit even if they repay it through HMRC, to National Insurance credits and their future State Pension.

Police are searching for a second suspect after gunfire erupted at a crowded food festival beneath Seattle’s Space Needle, ...

A yellow heat health alert issued by the UKHSA has been upgraded to amber as temperatures continue to rise in Essex.

Brewers Fayre has confirmed the closing date of all its restaurants across the UK, with the mass closures part of owner Whitbread’s ...

Sir Ian Wood “helped shape modern Scotland”, First Minister John Swinney has said, as tributes to the industrialist poured in from the business and political worlds. The Wood family announced Sir ...

Bill Oddie found fame in the 1970s as a member of comic trio The Goodies, but went on to establish a reputation as an ornithologist, conservationist and television presenter on wildlife.

A budget supermarket has named several Essex towns as target areas for new stores including Braintree, Brentwood, Canvey Island, and Harlow (south).

The ‘horror scene’ of his premises at Hull-based Legacy Independent Funeral Directors was discovered in March 2024 when he was on holiday.