Thanks to the wet weather, ponchos and umbrellas were part of this year’s festivities, along with the usual floats and ...

MasterChef host Gregg Wallace has thanked his Instagram followers for “showing their support” after he announced he was to step away from the BBC cooking show while historical misconduct complaints ...

EastEnders character Jean Slater has discovered she is the victim of an intricate pension scam as part of a storyline highlighting common scams and frauds. On Thursday’s episode of the BBC soap, Jean, ...

Syria’s armed forces said the offensive was led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which controls much of north-west Syria and is ...

Mr Putin said that over the past two days Russia had fired 100 missiles and 466 drones at Ukraine, saying they were a ...

Imposing restrictions on smartphones in schools without involving young people in the process risks their use becoming like “smoking behind the bike shed”, a top paediatrician has warned. Baroness ...

Martin Kennedy, president of the National Farmers’ Union Scotland (NFUS), led a demonstration outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh on Thursday calling on the Scottish Go ...

Political parties have been making last-ditch attempts to attract votes across the country on the eve of Ireland’s General Election. All the parties and independent candidates spent the final hours of ...

A royal insider has ended his ‘omerta’ to lift the lid on confidential discussions of state he had at a rainy Battersea bus stop in 2020.

Daniel Khalife’s audacious escape from HMP Wandsworth in 2023 revealed significant problems with the prison system. But when the 23-year-old’s trial for spying charges began in October, a running ...

Hundreds of National Education Union teacher members in 32 sixth form colleges in England began walkouts on Thursday.

A man from Exeter who distributed videos of himself sexually assaulting a young girl online has been jailed for 25 years after his sentencing ...