Public health officials urge farm visitors to wash hands after petting animals as more cases linked to animal feeding sessions emerge.

The unemployment rate was just under 4.20% in the three months to the end of June 2024 – the last measurement before the general election. It has since risen to a little over 4.53% in the three months ...

The driest spring so far in more than a century is continuing, the Met Office said, as some farmers hope for “substantial” rain amid drought concerns. So far this spring, 80.6mm of rain has been ...

Official figures are forecast to show a bounce in the first quarter of the year, before April’s tax rises and Donald Trump’s tariff announcement.

More than 30,000 people in the UK were infected with viruses, including HIV and hepatitis C, after receiving contaminated blood.

The Foreign Office says the fare was paid in full and that Mr Lammy and his wife are named as victims in this matter.

Three new prisons will be built starting this year, as part of a “record prison expansion”, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said, as the Government grapples with near-full jails.

Julia Yeates taught at London Southbank University Academy, a secondary school and sixth form in Elephant and Castle, south London. The 28-year-old is accused of abusing a position of trust by ...

Martin Lewis has given an emotional update on 'the most vicious and aggressive and damaging form of debt collection' ...

A dangerous predator from Croydon who encouraged another man to rape and sexually assault a baby has had his sentence increased.

A man has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after a crash on the M25 this morning. Officers were called to the anticlockwise carriageway between junctions 6 (Godstone Interchange) and 5 ...

A man and a woman have been arrested after a serious crash on the M25 that left one man in hospital with serious injuries.