The Government brought forward the Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) Bill after new guidelines for judges to consider a criminal’s ethnicity before sentencing prompted claims of a “two-tier ...

A police staff member has been charged with trying to arrange sexual activity with a child under 13 and other child-related offences.

Rachel Reeves will meet American counterpart Scott Bessant for talks on an economic deal between the US and UK.

A jury has concluded that the New York Times did not libel former Alaska governor Sarah Palin with an error in a 2017 editorial which she says damaged her reputation.

A panel of Brazil’s Supreme Court justices has unanimously accepted charges against six more key allies of former president Jair Bolsonaro for allegedly attempting a coup to keep him in office.

South West Water said around 9,500 properties in the Torquay area were still affected after a pipe burst on Monday.

Russell George, the Conservative member for Montgomeryshire, said he was withdrawing his candidacy to stand in next year’s election.

Thousands of families and well-wishers lined the harbour walls in Portsmouth to wave off the Royal Navy’s flagship HMS Prince of Wales as it set sail for the Indo-Pacific.

A rare Victorian engine once used in an Edinburgh police building has been found in an attic during renovation work. The Crossley engine lay hidden for decades before it was discovered in the attic of ...

A person has been taken to hospital following a safety concern that resulted in the temporary closure of the M25 near Enfield this morning.

The Church is currently in “sede vacante”, or “the vacant See”. This happened at the moment of the Pope’s death. The secret meeting of cardinals, known as the conclave, usually beings between 15 and ...

At least 20 tourists have been killed by gunmen at a tourist resort in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said. Two senior officers said at least four gunmen, whom they described as militants, fired at ...