Labour have confirmed Diane Abbott is standing as a candidate for the party in Hackney North and Stoke Newington. Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC), which is...
A 20-year-old charged with the murder of a football coach on Bournemouth seafront will go on trial in November. Nasen Saadi, from Croydon, south London, is...
A man who tried to invade the pitch at the Champions League final at Wembley as part of a prank to win £250,000 from a Belarusian...
He may be in contention to win the Ballon d’Or but Jude Bellingham has already been ranked as the world’s best footballer – by the makers...
The most famous TV election debate image is a sweaty and unshaven Richard Nixon up against the telegenic JFK in the US in 1960. Here in...
A 91-year-old man has become the first person in England to be fitted with a ground-breaking artificial cornea. Cecil ‘John’ Farley, 91, said his sight was...
A man has been jailed for 15 years for raping a “vulnerable, lone” woman in a city centre while celebrating his birthday on a night out....
Rob Burrow’s wife has paid tribute to her rugby player husband who died last week aged 41 after a battle with motor neurone disease (MND). In...
Reality TV star Joey Essex has entered the Love Island villa as the show’s first ever celebrity contestant. The 33-year-old, who rose to fame on The...
The only surviving member of a group of D-Day veterans will scatter his comrades’ ashes on his final trip to the beaches of Normandy this week....
British-Israeli hostage Nadav Popplewell was among four people who died while in Hamas captivity, the Israeli military has said. The 51-year-old’s body remains in Gaza, it...
Sir Keir Starmer will promise to “close the door” on Vladimir Putin with his homegrown energy plan – while Rishi Sunak will propose an annual visa...
Nigel Farage has announced he will stand as a candidate in Clacton, Essex, for Reform UK in the general election on 4 July. Last week, he...
The UK had its warmest May and spring since records dating back to 1884 began, provisional Met Office figures show. While it was a wet and...
Rob Burrow’s wife has paid tribute to her rugby player husband who died last week aged 41 after a battle with motor neurone disease (MND). In...
Labour could be on course to win a historic landslide, with the party expected to win a 194-seat majority, a YouGov poll shows. It would be...
Colin Gibb, a founding member of the novelty pop group Black Lace, has died aged 70. The band were best known for their hits Agadoo, Superman...
The UK had its warmest May and spring since records dating back to 1884 began, provisional Met Office figures show. While it was a wet and...
A man has appeared in court charged with kidnapping and murdering a 17-year-old Suffolk girl in 1999. Victoria Hall’s body was found in a ditch five...
Actor Toby Jones has hailed former sub-postmaster Alan Bates a “hero” after playing him in a drama which has been credited with raising awareness of the...