Business activity across the UK’s private sector has hit a one-year high this month, as the services industry led a summer rebound, according to new survey data. Firms nevertheless have been cutting ...

Waitrose boss James Bailey is to step down from the supermarket chain later this year, parent group The John Lewis Partnership has said. Mr Bailey has led the upmarket grocery business as its managing ...

Chelsea have accepted a £26million offer from Villarreal for defender Renato Veiga, the PA news agency understands. The Portugal left-back is reported to have agreed a seven-year deal and his ...

Knight has not played since damaging her hamstring in May but takes her place in a 15-strong squad for the tournament in India and Sri Lanka.

Russian forces launched more than 600 drones and missiles overnight, striking an American electronics factory in the west of Ukraine.

Rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was cleared of sex trafficking following a trial in July but found guilty of lesser charges related to prostitution.

The University of Edinburgh Sport has announced a ground-breaking three-year partnership with sports hydration brand Grilla, in one of the ...

A young shepherd set the baa high with her GCSE results when she arrived to collect them with her sheep, Kevin. Milly Johnson, 16, who has won awards for sheep-handling, brought along the North ...

Ethel Caterham, who lives in Surrey, became the oldest living person in April after the death of Brazilian nun Sister Inah Canbarro Lucas at 116.

London and south-east England have seen larger year-on-year falls in the GCSE pass rate than all other regions, the 2025 exam figures show. Some 71.6% of entries in London were awarded grade 4 or ...

Teenagers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have received their exam results to help them progress to sixth form, college or training.

Vienna is to host the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest after Austria’s act JJ won the 2025 event with his song, Wasted Love, in Basel, Switzerland. The city will become joint fourth on the list of places ...