Parents who want to homeschool their children face having to get permission from their local council, if their child is at risk of harm, according to plans in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill ...

Manchester United defender Harry Maguire has been disqualified from driving for 56 days and ordered to pay £1,052 after he admitted driving at 85mph in a 50mph limit. The 31-year-old was caught ...

A section of the historic Bridgwater and Taunton Canal in Somerset has been vandalised for a second time, less than three weeks since it reopened.

Department for Transport figures show as of January 1 there were 73,334 public electric vehicle charging devices.

The bodies’ recovery comes as Israel and Hamas are considering a ceasefire deal that would free the hostages and halt the fighting in Gaza.

A major global analysis examined the extinction threat to 23,496 freshwater species of fish, dragonflies, damselflies, crabs, crayfish and shrimp.

Around 4,000 people are still without power while 4,500 are without water, though more sub-zero conditions overnight are expected to cause more disruption. The entire island was under weather warnings ...

Sir Oliver, known as Olly, will serve as the new Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).

A Russian missile attack on the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia has killed at least 13 civilians and injured dozens, a local official said. Footage posted on Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...

Paula Radcliffe believes Keely Hodgkinson’s potential is “stratospheric” as the Olympic champion targets a “double whammy” of success in 2025. Hodgkinson won gold over 800 metres in Paris last summer ...

The bodies of Yosef Al Zaydani and his son Hamzah were recovered in an operation, defence minister Israel Katz said.

Conservative MP Damian Hinds said the ‘broad framework’ has ‘helped to guard against the politicisation’ of subjects like history ...