A doctor accused of criticising the war in Ukraine in front of a patient has been jailed for five and a half years after ...

Spy-accused former soldier Daniel Khalife had a 30-minute phone conversation with an Iranian agent while posted at a US army base, a court has heard. The three calls “rekindled” Iran’s interest in ...

Screams of horror could be heard as a man killed his friend at their home in Wales on Christmas Eve, a court has heard. Dylan Thomas, 24, is accused of murdering William Bush, 23, who died on December ...

Pub group Fuller’s has revealed a £3 million hit from the Budget move to increase employers’ national insurance contributions and joined the growing list of firms warning over price hikes to offset ...

The Work and Pensions Secretary suggested she wanted to see a 100 take-up of pension credit ‘regardless’ of how it impacted savings plans.

Scotland’s First Minister has given farmers a “cast-iron” guarantee to return £46 million taken from the agriculture budget to combat the cost-of-living crisis. The cash was taken in 2022 and 2023 as ...

The Health Secretary has said failing hospitals will be named and shamed in league tables and NHS managers sacked if they cannot improve.

Russian forces have struck Kyiv with a sophisticated missile and drone attack for the first time in 73 days, officials said. Air raid warnings blared for hours as Russia targeted eight regions of ...

Actor Timothy West, known for many roles in television and the theatre, has died peacefully in his sleep aged 90 “with his friends and family at the end”, his family said.

Song Jae-lim, a South Korean actor known for his roles in K-dramas Moon Embracing the Sun and Queen Woo, has been found dead at his home in the capital Seoul. He was 39. Officials at Seoul’s Seongdong ...

The Toy Retailers Association has released its annual DreamToys list of the 20 predicted top sellers this Christmas.

Officers received a report of a disturbance at a house on Sceptre Place, in the Elswick area of the city, at 6.30pm on Monday.