Dog walkers who failed to pick up pet have been fined as part of a council’s zero-tolerance approach to fouling in the street.

The Financial Conduct Authority also said it was preparing to give lenders more time to deal with an expected flurry of customer complaints.

The Health Secretary has said failing hospitals will be named and shamed in league tables and NHS managers sacked if they cannot improve.

Nigel Farage has claimed there is “outright hostility” in the US to the UK’s deal with Mauritius to relinquish sovereignty over the Chagos Islands. The Reform UK leader, who has been a long-time ...

A “fairytale” picnic cottage enjoyed by Queen Victoria on her visits to Balmoral has been saved from ruin by a conservation charity. Built by Queen Victoria’s granddaughter, Princess Louise, around ...

Paediatrician Dr Ravi Jayaram walked into a room in the Countess of Chester Hospital where nurse Lucy Letby had dislodged a baby’s breathing tube.

Sir Keir Starmer resisted pressure from an Independent MP during Prime Minister’s Questions to describe the war in Gaza as “genocide”. When asked for his definition of the word, Sir Keir told the ...