Journalist and broadcaster Rod Liddle has died after a short illness at the age of 66. Liddle was a high-profile columnist on The Sunday Times and The Sun, and had a weekly column in The Spectator, as ...

The M4 will be closed for five hours, police have confirmed, as firefighters tackle a major fire on a hay lorry. The M4 blaze broke out shortly after 11am between Junctions 15 (Swindon East) and 16 ...

Young gannets – guga – are taken from open cliffs using a pole and noose, before being gutted, salted and preserved in brine.

A man arrested in connection with the death of a nine-year-old girl in Arbroath was known to her and officers are not looking for anyone else, police have said. Police Scotland said the girl, who had ...

Alex Jones has said she was “too scared” to admit she wanted to work in television as a young girl. The broadcaster, 49, is best known for presenting BBC’s The One Show since 2010 but, growing up in ...

England and Wales have had their driest July in records dating back to 1836, provisional statistics from the Met Office show. And southern England has experienced its driest month, as more records ...

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Nigel Farage has said his party’s plan to intercept and return migrant boats crossing the English Channel would comply with international law. Reform UK has proposed using the Royal Navy to transport ...

Christophe Lemaire will captain Europe, alongside Marie Velon and Frida Valle Skar, while Jamie Melham (nee Kah) will return to lead the Rest of the Word. Partnering her will be by Japan’s Yutake Take ...

DUP MP Sammy Wilson is being investigated by Westminster’s standards commissioner. According to the parliamentary standards commissioner’s website, he is accused of a “failure to declare an interest”.

Mauricio Pochettino has agreed a new four-year contract as head coach of the United States men’s team. The former Spurs and Chelsea boss has been in charge of the US since September 2024 and led the ...

A written constitution for the UK must include a method for leaving the union, the SNP has said. The question of Scottish independence has been stymied in recent years by an argument over the process ...