A curator at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum has discovered more or less by accident that a barking dog in Rembrandt’s famous Night Watch painting is a near-identical copy of a 1619 drawing by fellow Dutch ...

A former health board chief executive has said she “absolutely” did not urge a senior doctor to avoid escalating her whistleblowing concerns about infection risks at a flagship hospital. Jane Grant ...

Yorkshire Water said reservoirs in the region have seen their biggest weekly rise in more than 30 years. Stocks increased to an average 45.6% in the last seven days – up 14.8 percentage points – after ...

The four shortlisted artists are Rene Matic, Nnena Kalu, Mohammed Sami and Zadie Xa, with the winner due to be announced at a ceremony in December.

The Home Office will seek to deport an asylum seeker after he was jailed for 12 months for sexual assaults on a woman and a 14-year-old girl that led to nationwide protests.

Sir Ed Davey told Liberal Democrat activists they should aim to win more Parliament seats than the Conservatives.

At a High Court hearing on Tuesday, a judge said the actor must pay £3 million ahead of a detailed assessment into the total costs to be recovered.

Former education secretary Lord Blunkett backed the current holder of the role, Bridget Phillipson, to be Labour’s deputy leader.

They praised the ‘remarkable legacies’ of Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, Bebe King, six, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine.

Hilary Benn has announced that Fleur Ravensbergen will take up the role of Independent Expert on paramilitary group transition to disbandment.

Industry Minister Chris McDonald visited a JLR supplier after the company announced it has extended its lockdown on production.

Dickie Bird was “Barnsley through and through”, the sister of the cricket umpiring legend has said following his death at the age of 92. Bird was described as “Mr Barnsley” by friends who remembered ...