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The UK government has approved visas for a group of young female footballers from Afghanistan. The girls had fled to Pakistan after their country...

A newborn baby has been rescued by the RNLI after surviving a nine-hour journey across the Channel made by a group of migrants on...

A phone service to help protect women as they walk home is reportedly being backed by Home Secretary Priti Patel. The proposed service would...

Around one in six adults in Britain have been unable to buy essential food items in the last fortnight, representing up to eight million...

Motorists have reacted with fury after Insulate Britain protesters blocked the M25 during rush hour – as climate activists also halt traffic at a...

Council tax may need to rise by up to 5% a year for the next three years – the latest in a long list...

The UK has recorded 39,851 new COVID cases and 143 coronavirus-related deaths in the latest 24-hour period, government data shows. It is the highest...

The UK has recorded 33,869 new COVID-19 cases and a further 166 coronavirus-related deaths in the latest 24-hour period, according to government data. The...

The mother of a teenager who was shot dead in the street says her hopes are fading that her son’s killer will ever be...

More than seven years after Stephen Port committed murder for the first time, an inquest has begun into the deaths of his four victims....

Facebook has apologised after global reports of people having problems accessing its platforms, including Instagram and WhatsApp. Those two services and Facebook itself have...

Nearly half of the toys purchased from third-party sellers via online marketplaces were unsafe for children to play with, a new study has found. The...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is set to announce a £500m expansion of government action to tackle unemployment and support job seekers following the end of...

The sister of a teenager who died from COVID-19 says she cries herself to sleep every night, as she described the shock of losing...

The police officer who kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard was deployed to the Parliamentary Estate five times on several occasions last year. Wayne...

A US private equity firm has won the auction for British supermarket group Morrisons with a £7bn bid. Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) bid...

Boris Johnson has said he backs Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick, who has faced calls to resign for her handling of the Sarah...

Boris Johnson says “infuriating” police forces don’t take violence against women seriously enough and are “not doing enough help victims”. In the aftermath of...

The policing minister has said it would be “perfectly reasonable” for anyone being approached by a lone police officer to call 999 and seek...