The proposals include creating so-called strategic authorities across England to bring together councils in areas where people live and work.

The “malignant culture” of the Post Office destroyed the lives of the victims of the Horizon IT scandal, not the system itself, an inquiry has heard. The Horizon IT Inquiry was told the Post Office’s ...

Authorities deployed thousands of police officers to protect health workers following intelligence reports that insurgents could target them.

Critics of the Beijing government warned that the activities of the suspect known as H6 were the ‘tip of the iceberg’.

Businesses said increases in the cost of employing people plus falling confidence were making it harder to recruit new staff.

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said the Government had secured a raft of legally-binding commitments with Mr Kretinsky’s EP Group.

Stephen Cottrell is due to take on many of the soon-to-step-down Archbishop of Canterbury’s official functions temporarily from early next month.

Mary Jane Veloso is allowed to return to her home country of the Philippines after it signed a ‘practical arrangement’ deal ...

A 12-year-old girl has been charged with the manslaughter of pensioner Bhim Kohli, who died after an alleged attack while walking his dog in a park near his home. Mr Kohli, aged 80, died in hospital ...

A neighbour said they heard gunshots followed by ‘crying and screaming’ as mourners ran out of the church to the sight of bodies on the ground.

The war monitor said the strikes were the ‘most violent in the Syrian coast region since the beginning of the (Israeli) strikes in 2012’.

Australia’s financial crime regulator said Entain’s activities in the country left it at ‘serious risk of criminal exploitation’.