Tens of thousands of local government workers are considering strike action over a pay dispute, a union has announced. More than 70,000 local government workers, represented by Unison, are being ...

Londoners have shared their concern after a picture showed an overflowing bin in London Fields following a sunny weekend.

Further races on Thursday also saw the starter intervene, with jockey Robert James suspended for two days after the stewards found he had not approached the tape at a walk or a jig-jog pace aboard ...

Belgian federal prosecutors on Thursday announced the arrests of several people in a corruption probe linked to the European Parliament and the Chinese company Huawei, which is suspected of bribing EU ...

A JP McManus double helped punters fight back on day three of the Cheltenham Festival, with it all to play for between the backers and layers ahead of Galopin Des Champs’ date with Boodles Cheltenham ...

Reform UK are “counting their chickens” ahead of the election in Scotland next year, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has said. The Nigel Farage-led party has been surging in the polls in ...

The captain of a container ship which struck a US oil tanker off the east coast of Yorkshire on Monday will be detained for another 36 hours.

Ben Earl has revealed that speed will be at the heart of England’s quest to win the Guinness Six Nations title on ‘Super Saturday’. Head coach Steve Borthwick has named three specialist openside ...

SPS also committed to pilot ‘signs of life’ suicide prevention/monitoring technology in Polmont, with a report due by January 17 2026.

Two vessels involved in a North Sea collision that triggered a huge explosion “appear to be relatively stable” and the environmental impact “mercifully small”, a transport minister has said.

Badminton player Kirsty Gilmour has called for a rule change after she was penalised for leaving the court to deal with her period at the YONEX ...

Bob Olinger maintained his flawless Cheltenham Festival record when storming up the hill to take the Paddy Power Stayers’ Hurdle under Rachael Blackmore. Henry de Bromhead’s 10-year-old was seemingly ...