A red-haired “gentle giant” who was known well in an Oxfordshire town has died. Mark Flintham, known as Pirate or Red due to his crimson hair, resided in Abingdon for the past decade on a camouflaged ...

Russian forces targeted Ukraine’s energy and gas infrastructure in a “massive” night time missile attack and Ukrainian drones struck an important oil refinery inside Russia, officials said, as the ...

A judge has ordered that a man who plotted to kill a prosecutor while claiming to be suffering from delusions that he was “evil Jesus” be moved to a medium secure mental health unit ahead of his ...

Waterloo Road is returning to the BBC for its 15th series, with Lindsey Coulson being among several new additions to the cast ...

A beloved Coronation Street star has quit the ITV show 10 years after her first appearance. In last night's episode, Bethany Platt (played by Lucy Fallon) said goodbye to the cobbles to start a new ...

Tariffs are taxes – bad for business, worse for consumers,’ European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday.

OpenAI boss Sam Altman has reiterated the AI giant is “not for sale” after an Elon Musk-led group of investors offered more than 97 billion dollars (£78.4bn) for the firm. After news of the 97.4bn ...

Catherine Mann said more job cuts and a slowdown in hiring partly driven by higher company taxes will slow price rises across the economy.

The cost of dealing with Northern Ireland’s troubled past is set to be considerably more than £2 billion, a UK think tank has estimated. The Policy Exchange has put the cost of inquiries, court cases, ...

Leaflets being handed out to members on Tuesday branded the Church’s attitude and processes to date a ‘safeguarding failure’.

The Unite union attacked the Scottish Labour leader after he said the UK Government has not done enough for the workers at the oil refinery.

Celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has backed a call by actor Idris Elba to take action on kitchen knives. Luther star Elba, 52, has called for a ban on kitchen knives with a pointed end, in a ...