Despite a slightly lower global average temperature, the scientists said extremes, including heat and deadly floods, persisted in July.

Dorothea Barron laid the first brick as her old barracks near Edinburgh which is being transformed into housing.

Kate Waugh has banished post-Olympic burnout and is ready to be crowned the best of the Brits at the London T100 Triathlon this weekend. The 26-year-old from Gateshead laid down a marker with the ...

Raiders have stolen £500,000 of jewellery from a home in south-east London, the Metropolitan Police said. The items, which included treasured family heirlooms, were taken from a house in Bickley Road, ...

The meeting comes on a day when at least 29 Palestinians were killed in airstrikes and shootings across southern Gaza, ...

The Chancellor said she was ‘deeply concerned’ about child poverty and the Government is taking evidence in a review of gambling taxes.

Volunteers in Bournemouth have set up a uniformed “force” to patrol the streets of the Dorset seaside resort in a bid to keep “communities safe”.

Kevin Philippart de Foy is keen to make new recruit Ghostwriter a “high-profile flagbearer” in his role as principal trainer ...

Ed Walker is building up a strong team for the Ebor Festival at York later this month with two leading contenders for the Coolmore Wootton Bassett Nunthorpe Stakes in Celandine and Mgheera. The ...

Jean Metcalfe, of Allostock, Knutsford, pleaded guilty to the offence at Chester Magistrates’ Court on July 30.

A CHAMPION grower has retained his title for the fifth consecutive year. Richard Okill won the heaviest berry at this year’s Over Peover Gooseberry Show. His Montrose hit the scales at 30.12 ...

A jury will hear evidence in the inquest into the death of a two-year-old boy who fell into the River Soar in Leicester, a hearing has been told. Xielo Maruziva, who was with family members, fell into ...