A computer maintenance engineer is celebrating a £500,000 lottery win a year after having surgery for cancer. John Lingard, from Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, had one of his kidneys removed to stop the ...

Diving, hockey and squash are among established sports to have been axed from the Commonwealth Games as Glasgow prepares to stage a skeletal ...

Shabana Mahmood is launching a sentencing review that will consider expanding non-custodial sentences with the use of new monitoring technology.

A passenger has died following a collision between two trains in Wales, the PA news agency understands. British Transport Police (BTP) said a further 15 people were taken to hospital following the ...

The ONS said public sector net borrowing in the first half of the financial year stood at £79.6 billion, £6.7 billion higher than forecast by ...

Neither candidate has a clear advantage with voters on the issue, polls show, with just two weeks to go until the election.

Campaigners hope to secure protected status for traditional pie and mash to celebrate the “original fast food” and its London origins.

Hezbollah has launched a barrage of rockets into central Israel, setting off air raid sirens in the country’s most populated areas but causing no apparent damage or injuries. The Israeli military said ...

Hockey, squash and diving are among the sports which will not feature in the scaled-down 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

A 24-year-old Sauchie man has been jailed for a string of offences. Paul Murray, of Craigview, appeared at Alloa Sheriff Court from prison. He admitted that on April 20 at Main Street, Clackmannan, he ...

Glasgow has been chosen to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games, it has been officially confirmed. The Games will take place from July 23 to August 2, the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) has announced ...

Tropical Storm Oscar was heading toward the Bahamas late on Monday after dumping heavy rain across eastern Cuba. Its maximum ...