Heavy rain and cooler temperatures are expected to follow what could be the hottest day of the year and help reduce the risk of wildfires. Highs of 24C are forecast for parts of the UK on Friday and ...

TWO ‘opportunistic’ thieves who stole power tools from a Winsford shed will return to Chester Magistrates Court to be sentenced in May.

All Saints Church, Lach Dennis, had to temporarily close down in 2023 due to a crack in the chancel arch, leaving it facing uncertain times.

Reform is standing more candidates in next month’s local elections than either Labour or the Conservatives – though no party has managed to find enough people to contest every seat. Voters in 23 local ...

Italy’s far-right-led government of Premier Giorgia Meloni approved a decree last month that expanded the use of the Albanian fast-track asylum processing centres to include the detention of rejected ...

A second man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a grandfather who was shot in his own home, police have said. Thomas Lee Sterling, 21, was arrested on Wednesday and appeared at Peterlee ...

A skunk-smoking mother who drowned her young sons in the bath while in a psychotic state has been jailed for life. Kara Alexander, 47, of Dagenham, east London, murdered Elijah Thomas, two, and Marley ...

Line Of Duty star Adrian Dunbar has given a rare poetry and art book to the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University, Belfast. Happenstance was created by the painter Brian Ballard and poet and ...

Hundreds of supporters gathered outside Silivri prison, west of Istanbul, where the hearing was taking place. Ekrem Imamoglu ...

The UK is “resolved” to do everything it can to secure the “best deal possible” with the US, Rachel Reeves has said, after a ...

Derek Pearson, 47, was convicted of culpable homicide after he punched Steven Johnson, 50, in Aberdeen in March 2023.