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.

The demand has been made ahead of a meeting between the Prison Officers’ Association and Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood.

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, ...

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 ...

At least 49,000 A&E visits last year saw patients wait 24 hours or more for a hospital bed – with people aged 65 or over accounting for almost 70% of cases, the Liberal Democrats have said.

A fire that engulfed two flats at a building in east London was tackled by 100 firefighters. London Fire Brigade (LFB) said 15 fire engines dealt with the blaze on Leman Street in Aldgate on Sunday ...

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 vehicle was reportedly driven at Martin O’Donovan, 46, on Stonyhurst Road, Woolton, at about 11:45pm on Friday, Merseyside Police said.

Travel and traffic updates as people travel to join family this Easter Sunday. Crash on M4 near Brentford causes heavy traffic eastbound with one lane closed.

A husband has described watching “in helpless horror” as his “beautiful wife” was killed at a golf club by a van trying to get away from police. Mother-of-three Suzanne Cherry, 62, of Aldridge, ...

US vice president JD Vance met Pope Francis briefly on Sunday to exchange Easter greetings, after they got into a long-distance tangle over the Trump administration’s migrant deportation plans.