Sir Keir Starmer sidestepped calls to say whether he will scrap the two-child benefit cap as he was accused of presiding over “chaos, chaos, chaos”. The Prime Minister said he is “absolutely ...

The UK Government will not change drug laws to allow more safe consumption rooms, even if a Glasgow-based pilot is a success, a minister has said. The Thistle Centre opened earlier this year after a ...

Changeable weather is forecast this week, with a chance of heavy rain and thunder hitting parts of the UK, the Met Office said. Showers will be seen across all areas of the UK at some point this week, ...

Rachel Reeves acknowledged she had been forced to reject calls for funding for “good” projects as she refused to loosen the rules governing her stewardship of the public finances. The Chancellor has ...

A jogger told a murder trial that the face of a dog walker found injured in Suffolk looked “black and blue” and she was wearing a bra with no long-sleeved top despite a “chill in the air”.

Police will not have to make choices about which crimes they investigate following the Government’s spending review, Rachel Reeves has signalled. Senior police chiefs and Government watchdogs have ...

Jamie Smith heads into England’s marquee Test series against India with a spring in his step after a boom-or-bust approach helped to seal a one-day clean sweep of the West Indies. Promoted to open in ...

ST Helier’s Constable has brought forward a proposition calling on ministers to reconsider building a new town primary school next to the Millenium Town Park. Simon Crowcroft – who described himself ...

A “significant marker” in the progress of a submarine dismantling initiative has been completed, as the first vessel to be stripped down had its fin cut and removed. The Defence Nuclear Enterprise ...

There are “not enough” landlords in the UK to cater to population growth, student towns, and rising immigration, the boss of buy-to-let lender Paragon Bank has warned. High demand among tenants versus ...

An Australian woman accused of murdering three of her estranged husband’s relatives with poisonous mushrooms told a court she had been trying to improve a ‘bland’ recipe for them. Before Erin ...

The head of Nato has piled further pressure on the UK to up defence spending, as he suggested members of the alliance should be looking to “equalise” the US contribution. Secretary-general Mark Rutte ...