The Government’s new reading test for year 8s will sit alongside new “diagnostic” maths and writing tests to help teachers identify gaps in learning, the Education Secretary has said.

A double manhunt is under way for an Algerian convicted sex offender and another prisoner who were wrongly released from HMP Wandsworth. Police are trying to track down Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, who ...

The Scottish Secretary hit back at claims the UK Government failed to engage with Inverness officials over proposals to house 300 migrants there.

A Scunthorpe United fan said he hopes donations for defender Jonathan Gjoshe, who was injured in the Cambridgeshire train stabbings, show “solidarity” among the football community. On Saturday, the ...

The Bill is aimed at bolstering the rights of workers, including by extending a host of protections to workers from the first day they start a job.

Greggs bakery have opened a new outlet store as they continue to tackle food waste and provide people with reduced price products.

Economists have urged Rachel Reeves to prioritise difficult political decisions in the Budget that they said would strengthen financial markets’ confidence in the UK and bring down the cost of ...

Rose Henderson described how upsetting it had been to see insults online after the case came to public attention.

Graham Moore, of the English Constitution Party, has launched a legal challenge against the Runcorn and Helsby by-election result.

Police are investigating the incidents as part of the probe into a mass stabbing on a high speed train on Saturday.

The agreement comes less than a week after OpenAI altered its partnership with its long-time backer Microsoft.

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander suggested she would be ‘comfortable’ with ‘high-end’ vehicles not being available through the ...