The actions of armed police who arrested a 13-year-old boy after his water pistol was mistaken for a gun were reasonable in the circumstances, an Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) ...

UP to 75 houses could be built in a village near Weston-super-Mare. An application was submitted to build a house development on the land to the north of junction of Lyefield Road and Lower Norton ...

Ed Miliband was asked about the Tory leader’s view that sandwiches are not ‘real food’ because he ‘battled with a bacon sandwich’ around ...

Boohoo chair Tim Morris said Mr Ashley is ‘not appropriate’ for a board seat because of ‘obvious conflict points’.

Japan’s Fisheries Agency this year added fin whales to its list of three whale species that can be legally hunted.

The watchdog said Royal Mail’s poor performance is ‘eroding public trust’ in the institution, after also fining it last year.

The UK economy unexpectedly contracted in October, marking two months in a row of negative growth for the first time since the pandemic, new figures show. Chancellor Rachel Reeves said she was ...

The hub in Darwen, Lancashire, enables customers of different banks to carry out transactions in a single space.

A prominent human rights lawyer has parted ways with the International Criminal Court to protest what he sees as an unjustified failure of its chief prosecutor to indict members of Venezuelan ...

Lincolnshire’s Chief Constable Paul Gibson has followed his Metropolitan Police and Essex counterparts in warning about cuts.

An investigation will take place after reports a member of Buckingham Palace staff was arrested after a Christmas party, according to a Palace spokesperson. The spokesperson said “appropriate action” ...