Richard Hughes told a briefing in Liverpool that the projected rise in state pension spending would contributed to growing UK national debt.

A report into the Post Office Horizon scandal “shows the full scale of the horror” unleashed on people just trying to do a day’s work, a former subpostmistress has said. Jo Hamilton was falsely ...

A man has been taken to hospital after being shot by armed police outside a rural village pub in Kent. The shooting took place at around 9pm on Monday at The Park Gate Inn, in Hollingbourne, Kent.

The department, which employs around 17,000 people, faces real-terms cuts in its budget over the coming years following last month’s ...

Post Office bosses should have known Horizon was faulty but “maintained the fiction that its data was always accurate” when prosecuting subpostmasters, the first tranche of a public inquiry’s final ...

A 15-year-old boy is on trial for the murder of Harvey Willgoose, who was stabbed during a lunch break at All Saints Catholic High School, Sheffield.

Tory former Cabinet minister Lord Norman Tebbit, who has died aged 94, was an “icon in British politics”, Kemi Badenoch said. The Conservative grandee was one of Margaret Thatcher’s closest political ...

The Environment Agency will receive a cash injection of more than £189 million this financial year of 2025/26.

HM Coastguard informed RNLI Happisburgh, which launched the D-class lifeboat Russell Pickering. The crew made its way to Walcott and found the kayak more than half a mile from the shore. The woman on ...

French president Emmanuel Macron said talks with the UK would also cover defence, security and nuclear energy.

The US president also announced new tariff rates on Malaysia, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Laos, Myanmar and Tunisia.

The risk of life-threatening flooding was still high in central Texas on Monday as crews searched for the missing following a ...