COUNCILS in Worcestershire are sitting on more than £750 million worth of debt. The vast majority of that debt belongs to Worcestershire County Council, which saw its debt pile rise by £45.7m to a ...

A resident of a hotel for migrants in Epping will face trial for allegedly trying to kiss a 14-year-old girl as she ate a pizza. Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, 41, is accused of approaching a group of ...

The Scottish Secretary is to visit the Navantia UK yard in Methil, Fife, on Tuesday, where the £8 million 1,400 tonne barge is being built.

Reform UK, which has sought to gain from public dissatisfaction about migration, will reveal its plans to tackle the small boats crisis.

Young people are being left at risk of drowning because of the “terrifying” closure of swimming pools over the past decade, a union has warned. The GMB union said its research backed up a study which ...

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner said the New Homes Accelerator was ‘breaking down the barriers’ stopping new homes from being built.

Mr Farage described international treaties governing human rights law as ‘malign influences’ which had been ‘allowed to ...

Other celebrities who quit the series included former Love Island contestants Chloe Burrows and Tasha Ghouri and S Club 7 singer Hannah Spearitt, as well as TV dancer Louie Spence. The 2025 series of ...

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said an Israeli strike on a hospital in the Gaza Strip that killed 20 people, including five journalists, was a “tragic mishap”. He said that Israel ...

Wales and Northern Ireland have recorded their warmest August bank holiday Mondays on record – but wet weather is on the way. Temperatures reached 29.1C in the village of Hawarden in Flintshire and 24 ...

A man has been charged under the Terrorism Act for allegedly showing support for a proscribed organisation following a pro-Palestine protest in Edinburgh. The protest took place outside St Leonard’s ...

This year’s Notting Hill Carnival has seen far fewer incidents of serious violence than in recent years, the Metropolitan Police said. There have so far been 423 arrests over the two main days, ...