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 ...

Typhoon Kalmaegi has left at least 85 people dead with 75 others missing in the central Philippines, many in widespread ...

Kelly Ganfield, 45, from Trowbridge, Wiltshire, will march in London on Remembrance Sunday with her guide dog Archie, an ...

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 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 ...