Nearly 200 Royal Navy sailors were recalled to their ship on Christmas Day to deploy to shadow Russian warships for 500 miles in the North Sea and through the English Channel.

Seven people were killed in the Jabaliya area, a woman and child died in the Bureij refugee camp, and three people were killed in Khan Younis.

The PA news agency’s photographers provided unrivalled coverage of the world of politics this year as these first rate images show.

A pensioner was killed in a hit-and-run crash on New Year’s Eve. A 70-year-old woman, who was a pedestrian, was struck by a car in Paisley, Renfrewshire, and died at the scene around 7pm on Tuesday.

Cloudy but mostly dry to start. Persistent, locally heavy and squally, rain spreads southeast from mid-morning and will last through much of the afternoon. Very windy, with gales likely, especially on ...

A 25-year-old man was found by police with a stab wound at the junction of Oxford Street and South Molton Street. He was taken to hospital, with police awaiting further updates on his condition.

On Wednesday morning 132 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected, were in place for England, 10 for Wales and 32 for Scotland.

Katie Boulter booked Great Britain’s spot in the quarter-finals of the United Cup with victory over Australia’s Olivia Gadecki. After their win over Argentina in the team competition on Monday, ...

Northern Scotland is expected to be hit with snow on New Year’s Day, as organisers of the cancelled Hogmanay event in Edinburgh branded this week “challenging”. The Met Office’s yellow warning that ...

A total of 36,816 people were detected crossing the Channel in small boats during 2024, according to provisional figures from the Home Office. This is 25% higher than the 29,437 people who arrived in ...

A software engineer has completed his year-long challenge of doing 300 press-ups every day in memory of his mother who had multiple sclerosis (MS), raising more than £10,000 for charity.

The year is set to see bands reunite, music titans releasing new music and major artists being taken to court.