Meanwhile 500 Tasers will also be handed to trained-up staff in local response teams based in prisons, scaled up from 20 specialist officers in July.

The King has paid a special visit to see the world’s oldest person, who entertained him with her memories of how “all the girls were in love with you and wanted to marry you”.

UK fighter jets have embarked on their first Nato policing mission over Poland since Russian violations of the country’s airspace – by patrolling the area where 19 drones were shot down earlier this ...

An elderly British couple who were detained without charge for months in Afghanistan have arrived in the UK. Barbie Reynolds, 76, and her husband Peter, 80, were freed by the Taliban on Friday after ...

Sir Keir Starmer will attend the Battle of Britain service at Westminster Abbey on Sunday, saying it “reminds us of the values that bind us together”. The ceremony, held between 11am and 12pm, marks ...

Russian pilots ignored signals from Italian jets responding from Nato’s Baltic Air Policing Mission when they violated Estonian airspace, a senior Estonian military official has said.

JD Twitch, the Scottish DJ and producer who was one half of the duo Optimo, has died, his DJ partner Jonnie Wilkes has announced. It comes two-and-a-half months after the producer, real name Keith ...

Flood warnings are in place in parts of northern England and wind gusts could reach up to 75mph as the country is hit with stormy conditions in the coming days. Heavy rain, strong winds and cooler ...

The Government should consider raising taxes on gambling firms to cover the cost of lifting the two-child benefit cap, Labour deputy leadership candidate Lucy Powell has suggested.

Several international airports are experiencing disruption on Saurday after an alleged cyber attack on a technical partner.

The Liberal Democrat leader launched the broadside against Reform UK’s Mr Farage as he opened the first day of his party’s conference.