Birmingham’s bin strike “must be brought to a close”, a minister has said following a visit to the city where tonnes of rubbish has piled up on the streets. Local government minister Jim McMahon met ...

Student-led protests were triggered by the deaths of 16 people in a train station canopy collapse in November, widely blamed ...

The UK could see its warmest day of the year so far, with temperatures higher than European holiday hotspots, after firefighters battled wildfires across the country. Much of the country will be dry ...

Luton was the UK’s fifth busiest airport last year, with 16.9 million passengers travelling on 132,000 flights.

Ronnie O’Sullivan has revealed he will make a late decision on whether to play at the World Snooker Championship. Seven-time world champion O’Sullivan has not played on the tour since he withdrew ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney said that Canada will match US President Donald Trump’s 25% car tariffs with a tariff on vehicles imported from the United States. Mr Trump’s previously announced 25% ...

A horse has died at the Grand National meeting at Aintree this afternoon (April 3). Well-known female jockey Rachel Blackmore suffered a fall while riding Willy De Houelle and the horse has since died ...

Lossiemouth swept home to win the William Hill Aintree Hurdle, as Constitution Hill left onlookers stunned again with another fall. Nicky Henderson’s superstar was the even-money favourite to put his ...

Skelton remains at the head of affairs by some way, but Mullins has already overtaken Henderson to rise to third in the table behind Nicholls and his hand in the National looks a strong one as ...

Physio Steve Harris says villagers in Flamstead can finally breathe easy after weeks of swooping attacks by the bird of prey ...

Nicholas Glass, 33, was looking after his brother’s dogs while he was in hospital but suffered fatal injuries caused by dog bites, an ...

The trial of a former Russian minister accused of breaching sanctions in the UK is “not about Vladimir Putin” or the war in Ukraine, jurors have been told. Dmitrii Ovsiannikov, 48, the former mayor of ...