Thousands of NHS staff redundancies will now go ahead after funding for the estimated £1 billion cost was agreed with the Treasury. The Government has already announced that headcount across both NHS ...

Diego Garcia, the largest of the Chagos Islands, is home to a military base (John Parker/ Sylvia Cordaiy Photo Library Ltd /Alamy/PA) A minister has said the US will be paying “many multiples more” to ...

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Prince Andrew is to stop using his remaining titles and honours, including the Duke of York, in the wake of the Epstein scandal, he has announced. The latest development in the long-running ...

Two women have died after being pulled from water in Eryri National Park, also known as Snowdonia. North Wales Police were called at around 9.30pm on Wednesday after a report that one woman had been ...

Damage outside the front entrance of the mosque in Phyllis Avenue, Peacehaven (Jamie Lashmar/PA) Two men will appear in court on Friday charged with arson after an attack at a mosque earlier this ...

Veronica Chambers, the daughter of Thomas The Tank Engine creator Rev Wilbert Awdry, at their family home (Ben Birchall/PA) A national blue plaque has been unveiled at the former home of Thomas The ...

Mourners gather at the house of Hassan Yakubu Makuku, vice-principal of the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, where gunmen attacked the school dormitory, abducted schoolgirls, and ...

The PM told staff at a Barclays branch in Brighton that a digital ID would ‘really help’ with security for customers (Pete Nicholls/PA) Sir Keir Starmer has said digital IDs will “cut the faff” as he ...

Tanaiste Simon Harris is to speak at the British-Irish Association conference in Oxford on Friday (Liam McBurney/PA) The UK and Irish Governments are “close to announcing a framework” on legacy issues ...

The Government has launched a crackdown on people who continue to claim child benefit while after leaving the UK (Ian West/PA) Thousands of people living abroad will have their child benefit stopped ...

The alleged driver of a car that ploughed into a crowd at Liverpool’s victory parade has been charged with a number of offences, including wounding and causing grievous bodily harm. The Crown ...