An ex-teacher, referred to as Evan, gave evidence via videolink from prison, where he is serving an eight-year sentence for sexual assault and rape.

The landmark Gull Wing bridge in Lowestoft is in the running for another top honour after being named as a finalist in a national awards ceremony.

The Foreign Secretary has pledged £12 million from the Government’s tightened aid budget in a bid to enable faster payouts, ...

Richard Hughes told a briefing in Liverpool that the projected rise in state pension spending would contributed to growing UK national debt.

Tory former Cabinet minister Lord Norman Tebbit, who has died aged 94, was an “icon in British politics”, Kemi Badenoch said. The Conservative grandee was one of Margaret Thatcher’s closest political ...

A report into the Post Office Horizon scandal “shows the full scale of the horror” unleashed on people just trying to do a day’s work, a former subpostmistress has said. Jo Hamilton was falsely ...

A man has been taken to hospital after being shot by armed police outside a rural village pub in Kent. The shooting took place at around 9pm on Monday at The Park Gate Inn, in Hollingbourne, Kent.

A 15-year-old boy is on trial for the murder of Harvey Willgoose, who was stabbed during a lunch break at All Saints Catholic High School, Sheffield.

Post Office bosses should have known Horizon was faulty but “maintained the fiction that its data was always accurate” when prosecuting subpostmasters, the first tranche of a public inquiry’s final ...

French president Emmanuel Macron said talks with the UK would also cover defence, security and nuclear energy.

The FCA said Monzo’s financial fraud systems and controls ‘failed to keep pace’ with its rapid growth in customers numbers in recent years.

Ofgem found more than 34,000 prepayment meter customers between 2014 and October 2023 did not receive final bills within six weeks.