Scientists are turning detective to work out what British dolphins are up to beneath the waves – by using forensic-style DNA techniques on their poo. Conservationists...
Sir Alan Bates has accused the government of presiding over a “quasi kangaroo court” for Post Office compensation. Writing in The Sunday Times, the campaigner, who...
Sir Keir Starmer could decide to lift the two-child benefit cap in the autumn budget, amid further pressure from Nigel Farage to appeal to traditional Labour...
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after three children and a woman died in a house fire in Brent, northwest London. Metropolitan Police...
The teacher of one of the Southport stabbing victims has told Sky News they “don’t want her to be forgotten”, 10 months after the knife attack...
Scientists from Kew Gardens are using a new study to track which trees bees prefer to try to stem the decline in our vital pollinators. Bee...
Football pundit Gary Neville is to miss coverage of the Premier League finale on Sunday after being banned by Nottingham Forest, whose owner he recently criticised....
“The target was never particularly ambitious,” says the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) about Labour’s plan to add two million extra NHS appointments during their first...
Sir Keir Starmer’s claim he is U-turning on cutting winter fuel payments for pensioners because he now has the money is not “credible”, Harriet Harman has...
Before the amps are even switched on in Brockwell Park, there’s been a lot of noise about who should or shouldn’t be performing. It’s where Irish...
The UK has signed a long-awaited deal to hand control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. It means Britain will give up sovereignty of the Indian...
More than a dozen people have been injured after a train hit an agricultural trailer on a level crossing in Herefordshire, according to emergency services. British...
The economy will have to be “strong enough” for the government to U-turn on winter fuel payment cuts, the business secretary has said. Jonathan Reynolds, talking...
The Princess of Wales has smashed a bottle of whisky against the hull of a new Royal Navy warship as she officially named it HMS Glasgow....
Pregnant women and babies were reportedly evacuated from a Bristol city centre maternity hospital following a fire on the roof of the building. Black smoke was...
The government has been temporarily blocked from concluding the Chagos Islands deal by a late-night High Court injunction. Ministers had been expected to complete a deal...
Irish rap trio Kneecap have branded the charging of one of their members with a terror offence in the UK as “political policing” in a bid...
There was “no reason to suspect equipment failure” after a woman died while skydiving, an inquest has heard. Jade Damarell died after crashing onto farmland in...
Police have issued a fresh appeal for information around the unsolved murder of a teenager in Northern Ireland more than 50 years ago. The body of...
Chemical castration has been used on sex offenders in several countries over many years, with some success – but it remains controversial. The principle of treatment,...