It came as Simon Roberts warned ‘many households are finding things tough at the moment’ amid pressure on consumer budgets.

Vernon Kay’s enormous handprints at Blackpool Pleasure Beach go viral on TikTok, prompting amazed reactions to the Bolton-born broadcaster’s giant mitts ...

A city in South Korea is trying to find a new way to free a huge dusky shark from a narrow canal. Workers in the port city of Busan had herded the shark, nicknamed Bukangi, out of the canal the day ...

Some 9.6 of people aged 16 and over are estimated to have been the victim of domestic abuse in the year to March 2026.

Six-year-old Ivy Knighton-Leake, from Bradford, kicked off the 2026 launch in Manchester on Thursday morning, where she received a special poppy made from the metal of Second World War Spitfires, from ...

Bolton man Mohammed Akram, 49, charged with 15 alleged child abduction, exploitation and sexual offences following a Greater ...

Judges will be given more powers to banish killers to their cells and block prison visits if they refuse to face their victims’ families as they are sentenced.

The incidents are heightening concerns about female politicians’ safety and raising fears about security in a country where politicians are highly accessible to the public. Poli ...

Friday’s meeting at Newbury has been abandoned due to a waterlogged track, while an inspection has already been called ahead of their high-profile meeting on Saturday.

The History Boys will return to London’s West End next year for the first time in 20 years. Considered one of the best plays of the 21st Century, the production received its world premiere at the ...

The Government has hit back after Donald Trump’s lead negotiator on the Ukraine war described Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “humanitarian”. Steve Witkoff, the US special envoy, made the remark ...

The banking group said this is the equivalent of about 5 of all its employees, which totalled around 93,000 globally at the end of 2025.