Comedian and actor Munya Chawawa has said British TV is dying, not because of online platforms like TikTok, but “because it’s lost its willingness to take risks”.

Barry Williams, Poundland’s managing director, said sticking to the £1 price point had prevented it from selling products that customers had to visit rival stores to buy. The chain billed the move as ...

The number of asylum seekers being housed temporarily in UK hotels has risen by 8% under Labour on the same point last year, according to newly published data.

Merseyside Police said the fire at Woolton Hall, Liverpool, on Tuesday ‘appears to have been an extremely reckless act’.

Ethel Caterham, of Lightwater, Surrey, who was born in August 1909, succeeded to the title of oldest living person in April.

London and south-east England have seen larger year-on-year falls in the GCSE pass rate than all other regions, the 2025 exam figures show. Some 71.6% of entries in London were awarded grade 4 or ...

Historically, experts classified giraffes as a single species with nine subspecies, but that has been overturned by the new classification.

Conservative-led councils in Hertfordshire, Surrey and London are considering taking legal action against hoteliers, he said.

Overall, there were 6,160,034 GCSE entries, down by 0.4% on last year’s figure of 6,186,879.

The former childminder, from Northampton, was ordered to serve 40 of her 31-month sentence in prison before being released on licence.

The official said 60,000 reservists will be called up in the coming month, nearly doubling the number of active reservists to ...

People are being urged to retune their TVs to access 11 channel changes made on August 20 as part of the latest Freeview update.