NHS England has published its latest monthly performance data for hospitals along with this week’s snapshot of winter virus levels and A&E pressures. Here are the key figures from both reports: An ...

HUNDREDS of children from schools across Halesowen will sprinkle some Christmas magic in the town. Children from 11 local schools are set to join together to sing carols in Somers Square, entertaining ...

Shadow business secretary Andrew Griffith argued that a trade deal with the US would be a ‘game-changer’ for the UK.

MPs from across the West Midlands have signed a letter to Severn Trent Water calling their practices “unacceptable” following a ...

Levi Fishlock was jailed for nine years over his role in the disorder outside the Holiday Inn Express at Manvers, Rotherham.

Ukraine’s stretched defences in Donetsk have been creaking since early this year under a fierce Russian drive.

Athletics star Sam Reardon has hailed the unfaltering belief of those around him after finishing as runner-up for SportsAid's ...

The 10-year-old was beaten to death four years after her taxi driver father was awarded custody, despite accusations of abuse ...

A Hong Kong judge has convicted seven people, including a pro-democracy former politician, of rioting during mob violence at a subway station at the height of the city’s anti-government protests in ...

More than 5,000 children in Northern Ireland are set to spend this Christmas living in temporary accommodation. It has emerged that in November there were 5,378 children in temporary accommodation, ...

A man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of Irish schoolboy Kyran Durnin. The man is being detained at a Garda station in the east of the country in relation to the disappearance of the Co ...

The number of hospital beds in England occupied by patients with flu has increased by 70% in a week, NHS England said, as it warned of a “tidal wave of flu hitting hospitals”. Health leaders said that ...