Category: UK

Extreme misogyny will be treated as a form of terrorism for the first time under government plans, it was reported. Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, [more…]

About 125 firefighters tackled a blaze at Somerset House in central London on Saturday. A pillar of smoke billowed from the roof of the Grade [more…]

Labour will end the blame culture aimed at people out of work and will not repeat the “salami slicing” of the benefits bill pursued by [more…]

A team of UK divers has hailed the discovery of a wreck off Scotland believed to be a Royal Navy warship sunk during the first [more…]

There is a rising risk of “full-scale regional war” in the Middle East, the foreign secretary, David Lammy, has warned, amid frantic international efforts to [more…]

Hundreds of Border Force officers at Heathrow will take industrial action for 23 days from the end of the month over a long-running dispute about [more…]

Sixth-formers are rushing to take up places at the most selective universities, with figures showing a substantial increase in the numbers enrolling compared with last [more…]

One of the candidates standing to replace Douglas Ross as leader of the Scottish Conservatives has resigned as the party’s deputy because of “deeply troubling” [more…]

Teenagers have it “much, much harder” than previous generations because of knives, mental health pressures and social media, Yvette Cooper has said, as she announced [more…]

A 13-year-old girl with a severe dairy allergy died after drinking a Costa Coffee hot chocolate after a “failure to follow the processes in place [more…]