Nearly one in five adult prisons in England and Wales have had serious concerns raised about their performance, the highest number since the current system of inspections began. Some 22 jails – 18.5% ...

AN alternative Heathrow third runway plan has been confirmed on the deadline day for proposals to be submitted to the Government.

A “jealous” woman who stabbed her ex-partner in the heart on Christmas Day after seeing his Tinder profile has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years. Kirsty Carless, 33, plunged a knife ...

Pope Leo XIV has decided to declare St John Henry Newman a “doctor” of the church, bestowing one of the Catholic Church’s highest honours on the deeply influential 19th century Anglican convert who ...

Yorkshire Water has been fined £865,000 for polluting a watercourse with millions of litres of chlorinated water, killing hundreds of fish. The water firm was issued the fine at Sheffield Magistrates’ ...

A jury has retired to consider its verdicts in the trial of a 61-year-old man accused of murdering his ex-fiancee at a luxury ...

A 76-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of administering poison at a summer camp which led to eight children being taken to hospital. Police responded to a report of children feeling unwell ...

A police officer in Northern Ireland has been sacked after sending “highly inappropriate and offensive” messages via WhatsApp. The office of the Police Ombudsman said the messages, which were sent ...

COLIN Montgomerie has urged The R&A to take The Open back to Turnberry as soon as possible and ignore the controversy surrounding owner ...

Change is coming to the Hundred, with overseas investors set to press ahead with team name changes, a potential switch to the T20 format and future participation in a Champions League competition.

Beijing’s Miyun district became one of the hardest hit areas by storms that dumped nearly a year’s worth of rain in the area over a few days.

A teenage girl who fled a police vehicle and was killed after being hit by a car on the motorway had been able to remove her handcuffs and climb from the back to the front seat, it has emerged. Tamzin ...