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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A generator that has previously been described as “noisy” and “polluting” has been removed from a popular park after much campaigning ...

A brand owner born and raised in Stourbridge has spoken of the joy of bringing the company he owns with his partner to the heart of his hometown.

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 ...

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 ...

It marks a political victory for Democratic governor Gavin Newsom, who cast the measure as an essential tool to fight back ...

In a sign of the extent of the Republican Party’s struggles, Republicans lost the Virginia attorney general’s race to ...

The orchid’s increasing population in Britain is a bright spot in otherwise ‘stark picture’ for British wild plants, the ...