UK

Owen Paterson will resign as the MP for North Shropshire in order to escape “the cruel world of politics” following a furious row over...

The UK has become the first country to approve a “game-changing” anti-viral pill that can be taken at home to treat COVID-19. Molnupiravir can...

Cervical cancer rates are almost 90% lower in women vaccinated against HPV, a new study has found. Women offered the vaccine between the ages...

Professor Jonathan Van-Tam has warned of a “potentially problematic” Christmas due to COVID-19 and said he thinks there will be “hard months to come”....

Three people who died after getting into trouble while paddleboarding on a river in Wales have been identified by police as tributes have been...

Two Metropolitan Police officers have pleaded guilty to misconduct in a public office after sharing photos of the bodies of two murdered sisters on...

The rollout of smart motorways should be suspended amid safety concerns, MPs and campaigners have said. Government plans to remove the hard shoulder from...

Daylight images show the scene of a crash between two trains in Salisbury which left several people in hospital – as passengers described the...

Two trains have crashed near Salisbury station and emergency services are at the scene, Wiltshire Police have said. No one has died, but a...

A man and two women have died and another woman is fighting for her life after a group of paddleboarders got into difficulties on...

A search and rescue operation launched after a group got into “distress” on a river in Wales has been stood down. Speaking on Saturday...

Boris Johnson has warned that success in the fight to tackle global warming “is going to very difficult” but “the whole of humanity is...

Prince Andrew’s lawyers in the US have asked a judge to dismiss his accuser Virginia Giuffre’s civil lawsuit. Ms Giuffre has accused the Duke...

The government is accelerating contingency plans for the collapse of Bulb, Britain’s seventh-biggest domestic energy supplier – a demise that would mark by far...

The UK has summoned the French ambassador after a British scallop trawler was detained – as a row over fishing rights continues to escalate....

Glasgow has been hit by flooding just days before the city hosts the crucial climate change summit COP26. Footage and pictures on social media...

A teenager who butchered two sisters after believing he had made a chilling pact with a demon has been jailed for at least 35...

Here are the key points from Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s budget speech: • The chancellor says there are “challenging” months ahead, adding that inflation in...

The government has U-turned by deciding to put legal controls on water firms dumping raw sewage in the sea and rivers across the country...