The BBC licence fee will increase in line with inflation each year until 2027, rising in April to £174.50, the Government has announced. It will be an increase of £5, or an extra 42p a month, after ...

One of the largest health boards in Scotland, which halted ambulance admissions in its region due to “sustained and continuing pressure”, has started accepting patients again. NHS Grampian, which is ...

Police launched a probe earlier this year after it was reported that a number of men with links to Westminster had received unsolicited messages.

Voting in the Irish General Election continued into Friday evening after a quick campaign that focused on the country’s most pressing issues.

A swift, three-day trial against Alexei Gorinov, once a low-profile activist, underscored Moscow’s intolerance of any ...

The figures are based on the total number of MPs able to express a preference in the vote, which was 639: 635 who could cast a vote, plus two tellers – or counters – for those MPs in favour (“aye”) ...

Kim Leadbeater describes herself as a “proud Yorkshire woman” and someone who has always been “very driven and determined”. She is the sister of Jo Cox, who was Batley and Spen’s MP until she was ...

Some MPs have indicated that their continued support at a further vote is contingent on being assured of appropriate safeguards in the Bill. Among them was Conservative grandee Sir David Davis, who ...

More bodies buried under the mud were retrieved in eastern Uganda and an injured person died in a hospital, bringing the ...

Conservative MP Danny Kruger said he was ‘disappointed’ but that the vote was ‘simply to continue the discussion’.

Small parties should get representation on the committee which will scrutinise assisted dying rules, MPs have urged. Liz Saville Roberts, Plaid Cymru Westminster leader, said their implications for ...

Two children and a 50-year-old were taken to hospital in Deir al-Balah, where a doctor confirmed they had died of suffocation ...