Hundreds of schools have been forced to close, roads are disrupted and homes left without power because of snow, after most parts of the UK recorded the coldest night of the season. About 100 schools ...

A MAN was taken to hospital following a crash which saw police close a road in Widnes. Emergency services were called to the incident on Everite Road at around 6.10pm yesterday, Wednesday. Police, ...

Women and equalities minister Bridget Phillipson said she is considering “thoroughly and carefully” guidance from a watchdog which is reported to suggest transgender people could be banned from single ...

Predatory ex-police officer David Carrick has been handed his 37th life sentence after being convicted of sexual abuse dating back 35 years. Carrick, 50, who served as an armed officer in the ...

The BBC’s head of content has said outgoing director-general Tim Davie will be “hard to replace” and his resignation came as a “bolt from the blue.” Davie and the chief executive of BBC News, Deborah ...

A woman has appeared in court charged with making threats to Irish deputy premier Simon Harris and his family.

A once-a-day pill could offer “more access” to weight loss medication, experts have said after a new study confirmed the tablet can help people shed up to a tenth of their body weight.

Ex-Formula One driver Felipe Massa’s £64 million claim against F1, its governing body the FIA and Bernie Ecclestone can go to trial, a High Court judge has ruled. Lewis Hamilton’s first F1 world ...

The number of new homes added to England’s housing stock each year has fallen to its lowest level in nearly a decade, figures show. Some 208,600 new dwellings were created in England in 2024/25, down ...

Asda has agreed to sell a raft of supermarket stores and a depot in order to bolster its finances. The debt-laden grocery giant said it would secure £568 million through sale of the sites, which it ...

The reformed asylum system will be a “fair system” despite concerns from senior Labour figures over the changes, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has said. A raft of measures were set out on ...

David Killahena and Graeme McPherson will work back from Aintree after Marble Sands inspired Grand National dreams with his clear-cut success at Cheltenham on Sunday.