There are more levers which could be used to tackle child poverty than scrapping the two-child benefit cap, the Deputy Prime Minister has said as the Scottish Government seeks to mitigate it.

Colin Stonehouse, 36, and David Kirkbride, 28, joined a crowd of protesters who caused damage to a hotel housing asylum seekers in Staffordshire.

A Redcar couple has defended their choice to call their baby son Lucifer after it kicked off a row following the New Years' Day birth.

A “popular, well-liked” teenager was fatally stabbed near a bus station in a town centre, police have said. Thomas Taylor, 17, was attacked by a group of males at 5.50pm on Wednesday as he walked ...

Veronica Wilson spoke to John Swinney about the unsolved killing of her husband Alistair at their home in Nairn in 2004.

Mr Lynch said he was incredibly proud to have served the RMT both as a rank-and-file member and an elected officer.

NHS England has published its latest monthly performance data for hospitals, along with this week’s snapshot of winter virus ...

A judge at the New York Court of Appeals issued a brief order declining to grant a hearing to the US president-elect’s legal ...

Thousands of claimants have received urgent letters from the DWP as as their benefits are being phased out. Tax Credits will end on April 5, 2025, the first of this year's legacy benefit closures.

Provisional Home Office figures show 547,000 applications were received between April and December 2024, down from 942,500 in the same period ...