It comes after the National Audit Office warned the Home Office had ‘historically underspent’ funding allocated to tackle the issue.

A freedom of information disclosure has led to questions about decisions made on wholesale local government reorganisation.

Police forces need to make decisions locally on how many officers to have, a minister has said after some warned of funding pressures. Policing minister Dame Diana Johnson said she was “not pretending ...

Efforts are continuing to free a whale which has become entangled in a rope at a fish farm off the Isle of Skye. A member of the public spotted the humpback in difficulty and contacted British Divers ...

Henrietta and Eliza Huszti, 32, vanished on January 7 in Aberdeen and were last seen near the River Dee at 2am.

A UK supermarket is trialling the sale of grapes labelled with their flavour or texture as it aims to better understand what customers prefer. Tesco said that many may think of grapes in terms of red, ...

North Somerset Council has published an open tender to find a specialist contractor to restore Birnbeck Pier in Weston-super-Mare.

More maintenance works are being planned at the Marine Lake in Weston which will be affected by several temporary closures.

They were among 60 travellers and four crew members on board the commercial flight that collided with a Black Hawk helicopter.

Mr Ewing said the former first minister became ‘obsessed with ideology, equality and gender form’ during the time Greens were ...

House price growth softened at the start of 2025, according to an index. The annual rate of house price growth slowed to 4.1% in January, from 4.7% in December, Nationwide Building Society said.

Dozens of senior officials have been put on leave, thousands of contractors laid off, and a sweeping freeze imposed on billions of dollars in foreign assistance. Secretary of Stat ...