The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) has said there are “a lot of misconceptions” about its opposition to the new protected status for English whisky. The trade body launched a legal appeal against the ...

Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the decision would ‘protect hundreds of jobs and help keep millions of homes warm this winter’.

Andy Burnham has said ministers will consider whether standing charges can be removed from gas bills to ease cost pressures on households. The Prime Minister told the Commons he had asked Chancellor ...

A police sergeant who appeared on a popular TV documentary has been found guilty of gross misconduct after he had 'risky' public sex with a probationary officer.

A teenage boy who stabbed a girl in the back at his school has been found guilty of her attempted murder. Prosecutor Christopher Paxton KC said the boy had an “obsessive and dangerous interest in ...

Inflation rising to the highest rate in almost a year makes it more likely that the Bank of England will hike interest rates next month, with living costs set to rise further this winter, economists ...

Actor Noel Clarke has pleaded not guilty to sex offences against five women, a court confirmed. The 50-year-old from Kensington, central London, is accused of two counts of sexual assault, three of ...

Two men have been arrested and around £10,000 of suspected cocaine seized during an Operation Artemis raid on Ware Street in Stockton.

The search for two missing fishermen who seemingly vanished off the north coast of the Isle of Lewis has resumed after it was temporarily called off. Forty-year-old Norman “Tam” Murray and Murdo ...

US envoy Steve Witkoff has held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg about Moscow’s full-scale ...

Russell Brand treated a woman “like a piece of meat” as he raped her at his gothic-styled London townhouse, and later told her: “I want to push you further,” a court has heard. Brand, now 51, is ...

Rishi Sunak launched the 100th Scott Trial in the Yorkshire Dales, where George Hemmingway won the motorcycle event raising money for charities.