Ministers are facing a backlash from victims and domestic abuse watchdogs over planned changes to prison recall which would see some offenders released within a month to free up jail space. Under ...

The UK economy is expected to have grown in the opening months of the year, before tax rises and announcements on US tariffs came in during April. The Office for National Statistics will report the UK ...

Britain faces a “moment of reckoning” over the grooming gangs scandal, the Justice Secretary has warned ahead of the publication of a national report on child sexual exploitation. Shabana Mahmood said ...

Sports broadcaster Gary Lineker’s production company Goalhanger has won the UK Audio Brand of the Year Award at the 2025 Radio Academy’s Audio And Radio Industry Awards (Arias). The award, presented ...

President Donald Trump urged Qatar to use its influence over Iran to persuade the country’s leadership to reach an agreement with the US to dial back its rapidly advancing nuclear programme. Mr Trump, ...

The Business Secretary has agreed on the need for “urgent next steps” to protect Britain’s bioethanol firms in a meeting with industry chiefs after the UK-US trade deal. Representatives of ABF Sugar ...

A Royal Navy commander has been removed from his role less than three months into post while he is investigated over sexual allegations. Lieutenant Commander Martyn Mayger took charge of the warship ...

By Richard Digard WHAT’S Liberation Day to you? No, not a trick question but, scratch down a bit, and what does it really ...

The UK does not need to be a “supplicant” to the EU to improve its trading relationship, Kemi Badenoch is to warn before the Government’s forthcoming negotiations with the bloc. The Conservative ...

The domestic abuse commissioner has warned that “lives are at risk” after the Government unveiled changes to the prison recall system. Under the plans announced on Wednesday, domestic abusers could ...

Sheffield’s famous Leadmill music venue said it is a “heartbreaking moment” as it announced it will have to leave its premises within three months after losing an appeal against eviction. The Leadmill ...

A man suspected of a double stabbing has been shot by armed police. Officers were called to a report that a man and a woman had been stabbed in the Tobruk Road area of Huyton, near Liverpool, at ...