The Lord Chancellor has asked the Parole Board to reconsider its recommendation that Steven Ling be freed after serving 27 years for murder.

Laila Soueif, 68, said she will not eat again until her son, Alaa Abd El-Fattah, is released from prison in Egypt.

Members of the largest education union in the UK have voted to accept the Government’s 5.5% pay rise for teachers in England. In a National Education Union (NEU) snap poll, 95% of members who ...

Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves “sees more black holes than Mr Spock”, a Conservative leadership hopeful has claimed. Tom Tugendhat said October’s Budget could “destroy growth” in the UK and he ...

The Conservatives’ social media strategy is “10 years out of date”, according to leadership candidate Robert Jenrick. Mr Jenrick labelled the party’s strategy as “really poor” during the general ...

The assassination attempt was thwarted when a member of the Secret Service protective detail spotted Routh’s rifle barrel.

The UK Government is doing “everything we can” to help Britons flee Lebanon, Downing Street has said. Foreign Secretary David Lammy chaired a ministerial meeting of the Cobra emergency committee on ...

A New Mexico judge has upheld an involuntary manslaughter conviction against a movie armourer in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film Rust.

A serving Thames Valley Police Officer has been charged with an offence in Abingdon in relation to an allegation of a "romantic relationship" with a victim. PC Ian Dring, aged 49, has been charged ...