Angela Rayner has warned MPs not to underestimate her when it comes to the Government’s pledge to build 1.5 million homes by the end of this Parliament. “Underestimate me at your peril,” the Deputy ...

Kristie Higgs, a Christian mother of two, was sacked from her role at Farmor’s School in Fairford, Gloucestershire, for sharing Facebook posts.

The decision to reinstate the winter fuel payment should have been made “a long time ago”, Scotland’s Social Justice Secretary has said. Chancellor Rachel Reeves said on Monday that nine million ...

Meerkat pups are settling in and starting to “show a bit of character” in their home at a safari park. The four pups were born on May 10 to parents Cardi B and Biggie at Blair Drummond Safari Park ...

Nigel Farage has called for the blast furnaces in Port Talbot to be re-opened and for Wales to start producing coal again.

Habibur Masum, 26, launched a ‘ferocious’ knife attack on Kulsuma Akter, 27, after confronting her on a street in Bradford, West Yorkshire.

Zaher al-Waheidi, head of the Health Ministry’s records department, said six people were killed and more than 99 wounded, some of them at another GHF centre in central Gaza. The war began when ...

The Chinese-owned social media firm said its UK workforce would expand to 3,000 this year, with plans also for a second office in London.

The SNP came “frustratingly close” to winning the Hamilton by-election, First Minister John Swinney has said. Scottish Labour’s Davy Russell won a surprise victory on Thursday, with the SNP coming ...

The winter fuel payment controversy has shown just how ‘radioactive’ any attempt at reform has become, one finance expert said.

The King has praised a 101-year-old veteran as “amazing” and told him to keep drinking whisky during a visit to Lancashire. Charles met Richard Brock, who served in the D-Day landings, at a reception ...

A nine-year-old girl and her father have died and an 11-year-old girl is fighting for her life after a house fire. The two died after the blaze broke out in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, on Sunday, ...