Chancellor Rachel Reeves has signed off on a £16 billion investment in nuclear power, including funding to build the Sizewell C nuclear power station. It comes ahead of the spending review on ...

Residents of Berwick-upon-Tweed have turned out in force to welcome soldiers from the Coldstream Guards who made a symbolic return to the town by train 375 years after their regiment’s formation.

The BBC’s Newcastle headquarters has been sprayed with graffiti saying “Free Gaza”, had its windows smashed and glass doors damaged. Northumbria Police has appealed for information following the ...

The Financial Conduct Authority said fraud was set to become one of the most ‘profound issues’ facing regulators.

The jackpot on Tuesday will be an estimated £208 million and would be the largest prize the UK has seen, National Lottery operator Allwyn said.

Prof Gaztanaga explained that the theory developed by his team of researchers worked within the principles of quantum mechanics.

Israel’s military campaign has killed nearly 55,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s health ministry. It says women and children make up most of the dead, but does not distinguish between civilians ...

Habibur Masum, 26, threw the knife away before ‘dusting his hands and calmly carrying on’ as his wife lay fatally injured, a witness said.

A total of 550,000 people were employed in the Civil Service as of March 2025, according to new data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). This is up from 548,000 in December 2024 and a rise ...

The family of a mother-of-three whose death is being treated as murder have spoken of the loss of their “bright, smiling soul”. Police were called to Wadham Road, Portsmouth, at 7.37am on Thursday ...

We’re excited to announce that @drdavidbull is the new Chairman of Reform UK! pic.twitter.com/SxSALwAFUr Speaking at the press conference, Mr Yusuf said that he is “hugely excited” that Dr Bull was ...

Rachel Reeves has acknowledged that not enough people are feeling the progress Labour has made and said her spending review will be about “making working people better off”.