Police forces need to make decisions locally on how many officers to have, a minister has said after some warned of funding pressures. Policing minister Dame Diana Johnson said she was “not pretending ...

Efforts are continuing to free a whale which has become entangled in a rope at a fish farm off the Isle of Skye. A member of the public spotted the humpback in difficulty and contacted British Divers ...

Henrietta and Eliza Huszti, 32, vanished on January 7 in Aberdeen and were last seen near the River Dee at 2am.

A UK supermarket is trialling the sale of grapes labelled with their flavour or texture as it aims to better understand what customers prefer. Tesco said that many may think of grapes in terms of red, ...

More maintenance works are being planned at the Marine Lake in Weston which will be affected by several temporary closures.

North Somerset Council has published an open tender to find a specialist contractor to restore Birnbeck Pier in Weston-super-Mare.

They were among 60 travellers and four crew members on board the commercial flight that collided with a Black Hawk helicopter.

House price growth softened at the start of 2025, according to an index. The annual rate of house price growth slowed to 4.1% in January, from 4.7% in December, Nationwide Building Society said.

A freedom of information disclosure has led to questions about decisions made on wholesale local government reorganisation.

Three judges who oversaw family court proceedings related to the care of Sara Sharif are set to be named after a Court of Appeal ruling overturned a ban on the media identifying them.

This adds to £100 million announced in December for England and Wales to put 13,000 more police officers on the streets by 2029. The investment is scheduled for the next financia ...

Dozens of senior officials have been put on leave, thousands of contractors laid off, and a sweeping freeze imposed on billions of dollars in foreign assistance. Secretary of Stat ...