A student has been jailed for four-and-a-half years after he killed a young man in a hit-and-run while driving at more than twice the speed limit. Ralph Fairhurst, 26, ploughed into Kyle Middlemass, ...

The Education Secretary made her comments in a speech to hundreds of school and academy trust leaders in Birmingham.

Ofwat has set out new standards for water firms to improve their services for vulnerable customers amid concerns that many eligible households are missing out.

The Runcorn and Helsby MP was suspended from Labour after footage emerged appearing to show him hit a man in the street.

Around 50 European officials will also be seeking a strong common stance on Russia at a one-day summit on Thursday.

Two activists from Extinction Rebellion have attached themselves to the outside of the Scottish Parliament building in protest against proposals for a new gas-fired power station. They used bicycle ...

The hosts will attempt to right the wrongs of last year’s World Cup quarter-final exit to New Zealand in Paris.

UK interest rates have been cut for the second time this year, as the Bank of England forecast a “gradual” reduction in borrowing costs despite uncertainty following the autumn Budget. The Bank’s ...

FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem said the grid’s stars had a responsibility to stop swearing on the radio and that they should not act ...

Monthly mortgage payments have been ‘eating up’ a much larger proportion of incomes, debt help charity StepChange said.

The sticker-decorated nacelle cockpit, dubbed Little Nellie, was used in the Lewis Gilbert-directed 1967 Bond movie starring Sir Sean Connery as 007 tried to locate the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s ...

An ‘ingenious approach’ has seen high-speed internet cables installed in a second pipe in the drinking water network on Papa Westray, Orkney.