AN OLD ice cream van is being converted into a Battle of Flowers float by a newly established group of volunteers – and they are looking for a space to get flowering. This year’s scaled-down parade ...

FRIENDS and family have described a 77-year-old woman who is accused of sexually abusing a child as a “kind, caring and supporting” person, as her Royal Court trial approaches its close. Denise Violet ...

Flooding and thunderstorms are threatening disruption for large parts of the UK on Saturday, hot on the heels of the warmest day of the year to date. The Met Office said Santon Downham in Suffolk ...

Liverpool agreed a club-record deal with Bayer Leverkusen for playmaker Florian Wirtz. The much-anticipated move could break the British record, with the Germany star set to join his former team-mate ...

The King will celebrate his official birthday with the Trooping the Colour parade. Military pomp and pageantry will be on display in central London to mark the milestone but the event will also ...

Grenfell bereaved and survivors are to gather for what is likely to be the final anniversary in the shadow of the tower as it stands, ahead of work to begin its demolition. The Government announced ...

Iran bombarded Tel Aviv with hundreds of missiles overnight in retaliation for Israeli strikes on its nuclear bases. Calls from Sir Keir Starmer and other world leaders for calm amid the mounting ...

An angry Rory McIlroy needed a birdie on the last hole of his second round to make the cut at the US Open. McIlroy said before the tournament that he needed to shake off the hangover of his epic ...

Actor Idris Elba has unveiled a commemorative stone from Mobo at a London college that helped him “dream bigger” as a student. On Friday, Elba, 52, who hails from Hackney, and is most known for his ...

Bridgerton star Adjoa Andoh has said being made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) is an “especial delight” as a British-Ghanaian. The 62-year-old actress, who was born in Bristol in ...

The family of a couple who died with their daughter in the Air India plane crash have spoken of the comfort they take from them dying together. Zaheera Nanabawa said Akeel Nanabawa, his wife Hannaa ...