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 ...

I say to my colleagues on the frontbench that I will be with you every step of the way as we do just that,’ the former deputy prime ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Neil Duncan-Jordan (Poole) said the proposed measure would help replace income tax and national insurance sums that would be ...

Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered officials to submit proposals for a possible resumption of nuclear tests in response to President Donald Trump’s statements last week that appeared to suggest ...

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.