Hampshire County Council could postpone local elections as it votes on devolution plans to establish a combined authority.

Police were called following reports of a vehicle crashing into a pedestrian in north London on Wednesday morning.

Seven people were killed when a strike hit a home in the Jabaliya area, and a woman and child died when another hit the Bureij refugee camp.

Northern Scotland is expected to be hit with snow on New Year’s Day, as organisers of the cancelled Hogmanay event in Edinburgh branded this week “challenging”. The Met Office’s yellow warning that ...

Harry Chandler, the third Pearl Harbour survivor to die in recent weeks, helped pull injured sailors from the oily waters after Japan’s ...

The last crossings of the year took place on December 29, when 291 people made the journey from France in six boats.

A 32-year-old man was arrested after one officer died and another was seriously injured in the incident in the South Island city of Nelson.

Politics in the UK in 2024 was dominated by July’s general election as Labour swept to power ending 14 years of Tory rule. But aside from the election and the hectic campaigning that preceded it, it ...

A total of 36,816 people were detected crossing the Channel in small boats during 2024, according to provisional figures from the Home Office. This is 25% higher than the 29,437 people who arrived in ...

Wind, rain and snow warnings are in force across parts of the UK, with the threat of flooding and disruption to New Year’s Day travel. Large parts of England and Wales will be hit by strong winds ...

From Sydney to Mumbai to Nairobi, communities around the world have welcomed 2025 with spectacular light shows, embraces and ice plunges. The New Year’s Eve ball dropped in soggy Times Square, where ...

North-West England was bearing the brunt of the rain with an amber weather warning in place on Wednesday morning.