Kemi Badenoch has suggested council tax rises could be needed after claiming local authorities face a £2.4 billion “black hole” next year.

Transport Secretary Louise Haigh said she wants to ensure everyone at her department is ‘taking responsibility’ for the experience of passengers.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced that he will ask for a vote of confidence on December 16, paving the way forward for an early parliamentary election in February. Mr Scholz declared his ...

Watson was arrested on July 21 when his ship docked in Nuuk, Greenland’s capital. A Greenland court has repeatedly approved his detention while Danish authorities look into his possible extradition to ...

Actor Timothy West, known for many roles in television and the theatre, has died peacefully in his sleep aged 90 “with his friends and family at the end”, his family said.

Donna Schultz, of Hertfordshire Chamber of Commerce, reflects on the Autumn Budget and what it will mean for the county's businesses.

Sara Sharif’s father has told jurors he “takes full responsibility” for the death of his 10-year-old daughter. Taxi driver Urfan Sharif, 42, made the admission under cross-examination as his wife ...

The climate-damaging vapour trails from jet planes could be eliminated for just a few pounds per flight, according to experts. Researchers say contrails – the white lines in the sky created by planes ...

A 68-year-old man who died after a suspected assault in Newcastle has been named by police as a woman is charged with his murder. Officers received a report of a disturbance at a house on Sceptre ...

A bishop specialising in safeguarding has said other people in the Church of England might need to quit following the Archbishop of Canterbury’s resignation over an abuse scandal. Bishop of Birkenhead ...

Wes Streeting has hinted at extra cash for GPs and hospices who face being hit by the Budget’s rise in national insurance. The Health Secretary said there would be no formal exemption for the rise ...

Conservation status for warm-water reef-building corals was analysed for the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List.