Airbnb bans hosts from asking guests to wash dishes, sparking UK criticism as new rules also restrict laundry, sheets and rubbish requests.

The investment would transform the sewage system around England’s largest natural lake where climate change is worsening impacts of pollution.

The Hull East MP acknowledged his approach to voicing concerns over Government plans to curb jury trials had been ‘overly robust’.

Police are investigating an allegation that former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson raped a woman in the Houses of Parliament, it is understood. The Metropolitan Police did not identify the politician, 63 ...

A scandalous Poirot murder mystery (with enough steam for fans of Rivals) has come to Hall for Cornwall in Truro.

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

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 ...

Porthleven’s iconic Bickford Smith Institute has been boarded up as Storm Austen approaches, with the harbour landmark protected against forecast 70mph winds.

Thousands of students and teachers have marched through the streets of the Greek capital, Athens, calling for affordable ...

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 ...

Martin Sartorius, lead economist for the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), said September’s inflation rise means an interest rate hike was “firmly on the table” at the Bank’s next meeting in ...

In London, the average property value fell by 2.2 annually in August, driven by falling prices for flats, the Office for National Statistics said.