June Spencer, who played matriarch Peggy Woolley in BBC Radio 4’s The Archers, has died at the age of 105, her family has said. She played the character since the show’s first episode in 1951 and only ...

A Spanish research vessel that investigates marine ecosystems has been deployed to search for people missing after catastrophic flooding. The 24 crew members aboard the Ramon Margalef will use its ...

Art organisation Creative Barking and Dagenham is running a series of Winter Light Parades across the borough this November, involving light boxes, performers and "lively" music. Four free events will ...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has predicted that a new US administration under Donald Trump will cease providing support to Ukraine in its fight against Russia’s full-scale invasion. His ...

Sara Sharif’s father has tearfully told a court he felt his “world crushed” as he held her lifeless body in his arms. Taxi driver Urfan Sharif, 42, told jurors he found the 10-year-old collapsed after ...

While finding a gem and turning a profit may not be top of our list of priorities during these searches, it is possible to uncover some great finds when abroad. Andrew Blackall, an English antique ...

The proportion of babies whose mothers were born outside the UK grew again last year, with Ghana entering but Germany dropping out of the top 10 most common countries for the first time in over a ...

Israeli football fans have been attacked after a match in Amsterdam, with five people admitted to hospital and 62 arrested, Dutch police said. It was not clear how the violence began. Dutch and ...

Asda’s chairman said he would try not to pass extra costs on to consumers, but ‘you can’t deny it will probably be inflationary to ...

A wartime bomb has been discovered at a construction site at a stop along the c2c network. Trains will be disrupted ahead of a controlled explosion.

Lidl is to mark the festive season by driving its own version of a Christmas cola truck to cities across the UK, as Coca-Cola announced the return of its own tour. The 20-metre, 15-tonne red truck ...

A wartime bomb has been discovered at a construction site at a stop along the c2c network. Trains will be disrupted ahead of a controlled explosion.