Campaigners say there is little evidence that nature protections are blockers to developments and economic growth.

The Trump administration has revoked Harvard University’s ability to enrol international students in its escalating battle with the Ivy League school, saying thousands of current students must ...

A second 17-year-old has been charged in connection with the death of a teenager who was attacked on a beach in North Ayrshire. Kayden Moy, 16, of East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, was attacked at ...

Firefighters have been called to a maternity hospital in Bristol after a blaze broke out. Emergency services were called to the scene at St Michael’s Hospital at about 4.30pm on Thursday. Pregnant ...

A lack of sign language interpreters for deaf people in medical need is a “breach of human rights and a threat to life”, an inquest has heard. Penelope Schofield, the senior coroner for West Sussex ...

Sir Keir Starmer said the agreement to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius secured the ‘vital’ Diego Garcia military base.

Former prime minister Boris Johnson favoured an “authoritarian approach” to punishing people who failed to isolate during the pandemic, the Covid-19 Inquiry has heard. Policymakers also preferred ...

All 10 councils left with no party in overall control after ballots this month have confirmed their executive arrangements.

A drunk 19-year-old was in tears when she met her friends after allegedly being raped by a Heaven nightclub security guard, a court has heard. Morenikeji Adewole, 47, from Dartford, Kent, is on trial ...

The US Mint has made its final order of penny blanks and plans to stop producing the coin when those run out, a Treasury Department official confirmed on Thursday. Stopping penny production is ...

Rapper Kid Cudi, whose real name is Scott Mescudi, gave evidence in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s sex trafficking trial.

The Prince of Wales dubbed a new warship a “hell of a piece of kit – screams UK power” after it was officially named by his wife. Kate pressed a button to smash an exclusive bottle of whisky into the ...