The Justice Secretary hopes the move will also help clear the court backlog of cases waiting to be dealt with.

A quarter of 11 to 15-year-olds in England have tried vaping, new NHS figures show, with almost one in 10 using e-cigarettes regularly. Charities have called for the Government to bring forward the ...

A coroner has said staff at Holmesley Care Home in Devon failed to ‘consistently’ follow the rules to prevent the spread of Covid.

One in 10 homes (11) with a household income of less than £20,000 a year already owe money to their energy supplier ahead of winter, Uswitch found.

The excavation at the world-famous site near Inverness, which witnessed the final battle of the Jacobite rising in 1746, is combining traditional archaeological methods with techniques developed ...

The social media platform said it is using expert guidance to train technology to spot scam accounts and prevent them from contacting teenage users.

Britain’s Got Talent has announced it will be postponing auditions for the show following the death of former One Direction singer Liam Payne. The ITV programme’s producer, Freemantle UK, did not say ...

The latest estimated gap was wider for men than women and for full-time employees compared with part-time workers.

A British mountaineer who set the record as the youngest woman to climb all the 14 tallest mountains in the world has said that inexperienced climbers should not be allowed to ascend the highest peaks ...

Former One Direction star Liam Payne has died after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in Argentina. Local police said the 31-year-old fell into the courtyard of the Casa Sur Hotel in the ...

Lord Mackinlay of Richborough wore the traditional scarlet robes for the short introduction ceremony in the upper chamber.

Earlier this week, gambling firms saw their shares tumble amid fears the Government is planning to double some taxes on the industry.