The upcoming Runcorn and Helsby by-election will run alongside local elections and it is expected to be a tight contest between Labour and Reform UK.

TWO people riding on a motorbike have been taken to hospital after a serious crash in Sandbanks. Emergency services were called to the crash just after 7.30pm on Sunday, April 27 involving just a ...

Snooker will review its transgender inclusion policy in light of a landmark UK Supreme Court ruling, the sport’s world governing body has said. The sport currently allows trans women to compete in its ...

A member of the rap group allegedly said ‘the only good Tory is a dead Tory’, prompting condemnation in Westminster.

A MAN died from a bleed on the brain after suffering an unwitnessed fall, a court heard. Peter Edgington, 83, was admitted to Poole Hospital but sadly died around a week later. Area coroner for Dorset ...

TRIBUTES have been paid to a Poole-born musician who has died after a battle with cancer. Roy Phillips, the frontman and keyboardist for The Peddlers, has died aged 81 in Christchurch, New Zealand.

TWIN Sails Bridge will be closed for at least the rest of the week. BCP Council is carrying out planned, routine maintenance of the troublesome bridge between 6am on Monday, April 28 to 8pm on Sunday, ...

Alex Mahon is stepping down as the chief executive of Channel 4 after nearly eight years. She will leave the business in summer this year, having joined the organisation in 2017 as the channel’s first ...

Prescription charges in England will be frozen for the first time in three years, the Prime Minister has announced. Prices will stay at £9.90 per item while three-month and annual pre-payment ...

Catholic cardinals have set May 7 as the starting date for the conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor, delaying the secret voting for two days to help them get to know one another better and find ...

IBF champion Dubois will face WBC, WBA and WBO titlist Usyk at England’s national football stadium on July 19.

A High Court judge commended the parties involved for their approach, which he said had led to a ‘desirable outcome’.