After Super Saturday at London 2012, there was Magic Monday in Tokyo as British athletes won three gold medals in the space of a few hours....
After almost a week of falling case numbers, there are tentative signs that the spread of COVID-19 in the UK is starting to slow. Reported cases,...
White and mixed ethnic groups do not live as long as other ethnic groups on average, a government study has suggested. Experimental data from the Office...
The COVID-19 pandemic is “a warning from the planet that much worse lies in store unless we change our ways”, a leading UN environment figure has...
Bristol Rovers manager Joey Barton has pleaded not guilty to assaulting his wife. The Bristol Rovers manager is charged with assaulting Georgia Barton by beating at...
Parts of London and the South have flooded after torrential rain and the Met Office has issued an amber storm warning. Areas including Hackney Wick, Newham...
The government’s Nationality and Borders Bill will only bring more “chaos and delay” to the UK’s “dysfunctional” immigration system, Amnesty International has said. The bill passed...
The UK has recorded 46,558 new COVID-19 cases and 96 more coronavirus-related deaths in the latest 24-hour period, according to government data. It is the highest...
More than one million children in England were off school last week due to coronavirus-related reasons, official figures show. It is a new record high since...
The government will not draw up a list of critical jobs that will be exempt from full self-isolation if workers are “pinged”. Instead, employers will have...
A Premier League footballer has been arrested on suspicion of child sex offences. The player was arrested on Friday and has been bailed while police continue...
All UK adults have been offered a first dose of a COVID vaccine – hitting the prime minister’s target just ahead of schedule, the government has...
There has been a huge rise in clinically vulnerable people seeking support ahead of legal restrictions being lifted in England on Monday and rising COVID case...
Police have released images of 10 people they want to question over unrest at the Euro 2020 final at Wembley Stadium. Detectives went through the “painstaking”...
The UK is “not out of the woods yet” when it comes to coronavirus and people should approach the end of most restrictions on Monday with...
More than half a million people in England were pinged by the NHS Test and Trace app in a week, the highest figure recorded. A total...
Animal Rebellion protesters have blockaded a McDonald’s factory in an attempt to prevent it from distributing beef burgers. The “animal justice” campaigners claim around 100 people...
Detectives have launched a murder investigation following the discovery of a newborn baby in a canal in the West Midlands. A £5,000 reward is also being...
There are more job vacancies now than there were before the pandemic, official figures show, as unemployment edges slowly down after a year of job losses....
As many as 60,000 people could die from flu this winter and a combination of seasonal viruses and COVID-19 could leave the NHS “unable to cope”,...