The South Basildon and East Thurrock MP said he had ‘decided to continue my parliamentary career as an independent MP’.

Sam Fender has beaten Taylor Swift to see his People Watching album crowned the best-selling vinyl record of 2025 so far.

A VOLUNTEER at a Gloucestershire rugby club admitted to feeling ‘overwhelmed’ after being recognised for her efforts to make the game ...

A public inquiry into the murders of three girls at a Southport dance class will identify changes that urgently need to be made to protect the most vulnerable from other “horrors”, the chairman has ...

Hope of finding survivors of the catastrophic flooding in Texas dimmed a day after the death toll surpassed 100, and crews kept up the search for people missing in the aftermath. The search efforts ...

A Scottish postmaster who was wrongly convicted under the Horizon scandal says Fujitsu is getting away “scot-free” from its role in the affair. Rab Thomson welcomed the first tranche of Sir Wyn ...

A volunteer from Driffield RFC hopes to use a national award as ‘a platform’ to show other clubs what is possible with their girls’ ...

The black-tailed skimmer dragonfly was spotted by volunteers at the Bog Meadows Nature Reserve in west Belfast.

SCOTLAND'S Holly McIntyre is not underestimating the threat posed by Wales in their second fixture of the 2025 Six Nations Women’s Summer ...

Mr Sunak, who was prime minister between October 2022 and July 2024, is set to advise leaders across the firm.