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Ovo Energy, one of Britain’s biggest domestic gas and electricity suppliers, is preparing to take an axe to its workforce next week as part...

Rail fares are to be frozen for the first time in 30 years, the government has announced. Ministers promised that millions of rail travellers...

Sir Keir Starmer has urged anyone with information on the Jeffrey Epstein case to come forward after Andrew Mountbatten Windsor missed the deadline to...

How best to summarise how badly the government fumbled the UK response to the COVID pandemic? Baroness Heather Hallett, the chair of the inquiry,...

All four UK governments failed to appreciate the scale of the threat posed by COVID-19 or the urgency of the response the pandemic required,...

Fresh yellow weather warnings for ice have been issued for many areas of the UK, as some areas are threatened with blizzard conditions on...

They’ve said they are offering him an opportunity to tell them everything, once and for all. But as we hit the two-week deadline set...

Two women have appeared in court charged with attempting to defeat the ends of justice after a man was found dead in a field...

Russia has accused the British government of “provocative statements” and an “escalation of militaristic hysteria” after the defence secretary warned a Kremlin spy ship...

Scotland secured a place at the men’s World Cup for the first time since 1998 as stoppage-time goals by Kieran Tierney and Kenny McLean...

The home secretary has announced major changes to the UK’s asylum system. Modelled on the policies of Denmark, Shabana Mahmood hopes her proposals will...

The home secretary has admitted the UK’s illegal immigrant numbers are “too high” – but said Nigel Farage can “sod off” after he claimed...

Satellite images reveal how a grassy field in Oxfordshire was transformed into an illegal waste site in just a few months. The site is...

Cold health alerts have been issued for large parts of the UK from midday on Monday until Saturday morning. The UK Health Security Agency...

Donald Trump has said he will sue the BBC for between $1bn and $5bn over the editing of his speech on Panorama. The US...

Back in June, it was the U-turn on welfare that raised eyebrows. Now it’s a perceived volte-face on tax. After weeks of suggestions that...

An “incredibly dangerous” sex offender who drugged his victims and installed spy cameras around his home has been jailed for life with a minimum...

A man has been given a 13-month prison sentence for stealing Banksy’s famous Girl With Balloon print from a London gallery. Larry Fraser, 49,...

Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have scrapped plans to break their manifesto pledge and raise income tax rates in a massive U-turn less...