Sir Keir Starmer has condemned Russia’s strikes on Ukraine’s energy grid “with no respite even at Christmas”. Russia launched a massive missile barrage on Christmas Day, with the aim of crippling ...

Brave outdoor swimmers wore Father Christmas hats as they kicked off their celebrations with a festive dip. Sea surface temperatures across the country were between 8C and 11C, the Met Office said.

Migrants have been crossing the English Channel in small boats on Christmas Day. Several boats were seen making the dangerous journey from France on Wednesday morning, with more expected to follow ...

South Wales has continued to lose some of its banks in 2024 with eight different branches closing their doors over the last 12 months.

Sir Brian May, Kylie Minogue and and Sir Paul McCartney are among the host of famous faces to share festive well-wishes on Christmas Day. The Queen guitarist, 77, treated fans to a video of him ...

Police said they believed the suspect was ‘involved in an altercation at a nightclub prior to getting in his car and mounting the pavement’.

Russia has launched a massive missile barrage targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. A thermal power plant was struck in the attack, prompting Ukrainians to take shelter in metro stations on ...

Bishop of Dover Rose Hudson-Wilkin is giving the Christmas Day sermon from Canterbury Cathedral (Andrew Matthews/PA) Bishop of Dover Rose Hudson-Wilkin is giving the sermon at Canterbury Cathedral in ...

Scottish parents are celebrating a different kind of festive cheer this year as they welcome newborns. Alyshia Glen of Bellshill and her partner Daniel McGhee met their daughter for the first time at ...

The King attended the royal family’s traditional Christmas Day church service, after a “brutal” year in which he and his daughter-in-law, the Princess of Wales, were both diagnosed with cancer.

A 39-year-old man was shot dead by armed police on Christmas Eve. West Mercia Police said officers were called by West Midlands Ambulance Service to an address in Redditch, Worcestershire, at around ...

Forty-two people are likely to have died in an Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash in the Kazakhstani city of Aktau, Kazakhstan’s emergency ministry has said. The ministry confirmed in a statement on the ...