Jo White called for disclosure and barring service (DBS) checks before members of the Commons and Lords take their seats.

The Mayor of Greater Manchester signalled he was supportive of calls for a new nationwide investigation into the historical ...

There are more levers which could be used to tackle child poverty than scrapping the two-child benefit cap, the Deputy Prime ...

Members of the National Education Union will be asked if they would be willing to take industrial action over the ...

Inverness Campus will remain closed to students for a second day on Friday, UHI Inverness has confirmed amid further weather ...

A “popular, well-liked” teenager was fatally stabbed near a bus station in a town centre, police have said. Thomas Taylor, 17 ...

Irish leaders have indicated they are content with the handling of recent weather as the end of the cold snap is in sight.

A Northern Ireland MP has described herself as a “survivor of abuse” while speaking in the Commons, as she told MPs of her ...

Police are investigating whether the death of a 78-year-old woman by cardiac arrest after she boarded a London bus was linked ...

The number of deaths involving flu in the first week of this year was almost quadruple that of the same time last year, ...

Provisional Home Office figures show 547,000 applications were received between April and December 2024, down from 942,500 in ...

A charity has been given an official warning by the regulator after fundraising for an IDF soldier (Alamy/PA) A London ...