The issue is top of voters’ concerns but there is little support for Sir Keir Starmer’s approach, a poll has suggested.

Some 70% of UK consumers have received a scam message that appeared to come from a trusted source such as a delivery company, bank or government body, according to a survey. More than half of those ...

Thousands of pensioners have claimed back more than £10,000 after being overcharged tax on their pension withdrawals, new analysis shows. A handful of people in the UK were given a refund worth more ...

A series of nationwide strikes by bus drivers is being threatened in disputes over pay and conditions. Around 7,500 members of Unite are either striking or balloting to take industrial action in areas ...

Almost 290,000 shoplifting cases went unsolved in 2024-25, according to House of Commons library analysis. The figures showed 55.5% of investigations in England and Wales failed to identify a suspect, ...

A £1.5 million government investment will help build two indoor cricket domes to allow the sport to be played all year round. The domes, in Luton, Bedfordshire and Farington, Lancashire, are intended ...

A man who died after suffering serious head injuries in a “workplace accident” at a funfair has been named by police. Emergency services rushed to the Spanish City Summer Funfair in Whitley Bay in ...

This week, we take a look at the seven ghosts haunting Culzean Castle, a spectre-ridden former mental hospital and some spooky events in a famous pub ...

The sisters from war-torn Sudan are the latest known victims of a Mediterranean migration route that has claimed more than 30,000 lives since 2014.

IT'S now 25 years since Ballochmyle Hospital closed its doors for the final time. For 60 years, the once-buzzing medical facility near Catrine had cared for local residents. But in summer 2000, the ...

The Home Secretary wants to give a new adjudication panel the power to decide asylum appeals to speed up the process.

The festival began early on Sunday with the J’ouvert celebration where people covered each other in paint, coloured powder and chocolate.