“Various officers” were assaulted across North Yorkshire on New Year’s Eve, police said. They were patrolling on one of North Yorkshire Police’s busiest nights of the year, with the force receiving ...

Pope Francis has ushered in 2025 with a renewed appeal for the faithful to reject abortion, calling for a “firm commitment” to protect and respect life from conception to natural death. The ...

The two-year renovation of the almost 300-year-old watermill on the outskirts of Belfast will see it reopen as a deli, cafe and restaurant.

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.

Flooding is expected in York as river levels continue to rise after heavy rainfall. The River Ouse was slightly above 1.9m – the top of its normal range – on the Viking Recorder at 10.30am today ...

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.

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

Politics in the UK in 2024 was dominated by July’s general election as Labour swept to power ending 14 years of Tory rule. But aside from the election and the hectic campaigning that preceded it, it ...

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

A 40-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving after a hit-and-run incident in which two New Year revellers were injured. Metropolitan Police officers were called to the ...

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 ...