The Government’s new reading test for year 8s will sit alongside new “diagnostic” maths and writing tests to help teachers identify gaps in learning, the Education Secretary has said.

A double manhunt is under way for an Algerian convicted sex offender and another prisoner who were wrongly released from HMP Wandsworth. Police are trying to track down Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, who ...

The Stormont Executive has the choice to raise its own funds to help alleviate financial pressures, Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn has said. Mr Benn said being in government is about making ...

A DRIVER has been arrested in connection with drugs supply across the Dudley area. West Midlands Police Traffic Officers intercepted a Vauxhall Insignia over the weekend. The driver attempted to flee ...

In its current form, the draft legislation, which applies only to England and Wales, would mean terminally ill adults with six months left to live could apply for assistance to end their lives, with ...

In 2024, inspectors said the turmoil they found at “severely overcrowded” HMP Wandsworth was the result of “sustained decline permitted to happen in plain view of leaders” and warned how prison guards ...

Neil Duncan-Jordan (Poole) said the proposed measure would help replace income tax and national insurance sums that would be lost from the Treasury under the increased use of AI in the workplace. The ...

Camilla helped TikTok star Spudman serve his signature jacket potatoes at a reception celebrating Meals on Wheels Week.

Scientists are hopeful it will improve understanding of how genes work, what goes wrong in disease, and how to fix it.

He was freed from the jail, which was put into special measures last year, on October 29, but the mistake was only reported to the Metropolitan Police on Tuesday, the force said. It comes after ...

Donald Trump’s man in London reiterated the US president’s demands for the UK to pay pharmaceutical companies more money.

In his victory speech to supporters, Mr Mamdani had wished Mr Cuomo the best in his private life, before adding: “Let tonight be the final time I utter his name, as we turn the page on a politics that ...