The terrorism-related prison population has reached its highest level in the published Home Office series, with 57 per cent of those in custody classified as holding Islamist-extremist views.

New Health Foundation modelling suggests that, if recent trends continue, the waiting-time threshold for 92 per cent of incomplete NHS referral-to-treatment pathways in England could reach almost 35 ...

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband insists Britain's nearly 200-year-old diplomatic mission will remain open, but Israel says the Consulate-General has ceased functioning in its former capacity, with the ...

Home Office figures released to Parliament show dozens of Freedom of Information responses stuck beyond 40 working days in ...

Britain's national fusion laboratory helped prove a world-first temperature milestone for Magnetised Target Fusion, with a Culham-built diagnostic measuring plasma hotter than 12 million degrees ...

Spending on six major benefits rose faster than median wages in 502 of 526 constituencies across England and Wales, according to TaxPayers' Alliance analysis. Every constituency recorded an increase, ...

The arrival of one of Britain's most powerful warships in Belfast has prompted a stark warning that Northern Ireland's strategic importance to the defence of the United Kingdom is not being matched by ...

Six Second World War servicemen who lay for decades in graves marked ‘unknown’ have been named at services in the Netherlands and Germany, among them two men from Sheffield. Four were the crew of a ...

Ministers have admitted they cannot yet say what Andy Burnham's No 10 North costs to run each year, almost three months after the Prime Minister opened his Manchester headquarters as the “engine room” ...

Winston Churchill, Jane Austen, JMW Turner and Alan Turing are being swept off Britain's banknotes in favour of bees, puffins, owls and hedgehogs. Almost half a million people responded to a public ...

Donald Trump's threatened US diesel export restrictions have receded for now after the G7 agreed to an emergency release of oil stocks. But with four refineries left, more than half its diesel ...

BRITISH scientists are developing a new generation of technology, including artificial intelligence, rapid MRI scans, blood tests and at-home monitoring, which could dramatically speed up the ...