The Foreign Office has denied that David Lammy refused to pay a taxi driver who drove the Foreign Secretary and his wife from Italy to France. An anonymous taxi driver told French media Mr Lammy ...

A lawyer acting for one of two men accused of launching a fatal arson attack on a family home has claimed that whoever started the fire did not intend to kill or endanger life. Mark Fenhalls KC, ...

Care staff working at Enable Scotland are to go on strike in a dispute over pay in the first national care walkout in more than a decade, Unison has announced. The strike will roll out across five ...

The boss of one of the co-owners behind Co-op Live has called for stronger powers to turn people away who have bought tickets from touts as he warned over the impact on the live music industry. Tim ...

Three Nazi-worshipping extremists who believed a race war was imminent have been found guilty of planning terrorist attacks on mosques and synagogues. A jury at Sheffield Crown Court heard how ...

Sir Keir Starmer has said the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is “intolerable and getting worse” as a Foreign Office minister admitted the Government has not done enough in response. After the Prime ...

A section of the M25 motorway has reopened after being closed for around 12 hours because a lorry overturned and spilled waste. The stretch from junction six (Godstone interchange, Surrey) to junction ...

Three new prisons will be built starting this year, as part of a “record prison expansion”, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said, as the Government grapples with near-full jails. Ms Mahmood also ...

Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee chairwoman Dame Caroline Dinenage has said the UK does not “understand” the economic and cultural value of electronic music and club culture in the country.

The R&B singer Cassie returned to court on Wednesday after spending the previous day recounting grotesque and humiliating details of life with her ex-boyfriend, music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs. Cassie, ...

The oldest working theatre in the UK, where William Shakespeare is thought to have performed, has exposed an area of historic timber floor “larger than a tennis court” in a heritage project. Tim ...

Murder accused Richard Satchwell said he cut the dressing gown belt he had held to his dead wife’s throat so he could put her arm around him minutes after an incident at their home, a court has heard.