More than 50,000 migrants have arrived in the UK after crossing the English Channel since Labour won the 2024 general election. Home Office figures show 474 migrants arrived by small boat on Monday ...

Person hit by train between Bedford and Kettering. Major disruption to East Midlands Railway services to and from London St Pancras. Cancellations and 90 minute delays all day.

Some of the 800 National Guard members deployed by US president Donald Trump began arriving in the nation’s capital on Tuesday. It comes after the White House ordered federal forces to take over the ...

VE Day often overshadows VJ Day, descendants of Second World War veterans have said during a screening of their wartime letters. Passers-by paused to watch recordings of loved ones’ reading excerpts ...

James ‘Jim’ Wren survived the sinking of HMS Repulse in December 1941 after it was torpedoed in the South China Sea.

More women are planning to buy a home on their own than with a partner, according to research. A study of 1,000 women who do not currently own a home found 37 per cent intend to purchase solo – ...

A hoax caller has been jailed after making bomb threats to St Pancras station, the Ritz, Heathrow and other landmarks.

A New York resident has admitted he tried to smuggle protected turtles worth more than one million US dollars from the US to Hong Kong by shipping them in boxes labelled “plastic animal toys”.

The road closure along Bloomsbury Way has been in place since the early hours of the morning. It is understood that the closure has been in place since around 2.30am today. Routes 19, 38, N19, N38 and ...

A community in Co Down has been “shaken and upset deeply” by the attack on a priest and the death of a man at the weekend, Bishop Alan McGuckian has said. Father John Murray was struck on the head in ...

Wildfires burned in parts of Europe on Tuesday as millions of people across the continent struggled to adapt to the new reality: record summer heat.

The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites and the European Space Agency are leading the scheme.