Prison officers are asking for electric stun guns to be allowed in the UK's most dangerous prisons after an attack injured four officers in April.

Despite the declaration of an Easter ceasefire on Saturday, Ukrainian forces have recorded 59 instances of Russian shelling.

The bank holiday weekend will end with cloud and rain for much of the UK, the Met Office has forecast. The weather service said that Monday would be “rather cloudy with rain continuing eastwards, ...

Scottish Water staff will stage a two-day strike from midnight amid a continued dispute over pay. Workers will walk out on Tuesday and Wednesday following a one-day strike last month. Unison, which ...

The Orkney Native Wildlife Project began removing stoats in 2019 and the latest survey, which covered 100 sites and recorded pairs of wading birds per square kilometre, showed a modest recovery since ...

68-year-old actor Timothy Spall thought he “might not make it” after being diagnosed with leukaemia. The acclaimed star, who is known for playing Peter Pettigrew in the Harry Potter film series and ...

Gatwick, which is the UK’s second busiest airport, was badly affected by ATC staff shortages across continental Europe in 2024, and suffered the same problem in its own control tower. Flights from ...

A huge fire has broken out at a flat building in east London, with 100 firefighters tackling the blaze. Footage showed flames engulfing two different flats on Leman Street in Aldgate, with smoke seen ...

A 45-year-old woman has died after a stabbing at a home in Enfield. The incident happened at an address in Ayley Croft at around 7pm yesterday (April 19). Officers and London Ambulance Service crews ...

Now a single Tube route, the Northern line’s origins lie in two separate early underground railways. The first to be built was the City & South London Railway, which was also the first electric Tube ...