A man has been ordered to pay more than £800 for throwing a cigarette butt on the floor. Carl Smith, 31, was issued with a £100 fixed penalty notice earlier this year for dropping the butt on the ...

The Home Secretary reiterated Sir Keir Starmer’s welcoming of the Assad regime’s collapse but said there was a ‘significant risk’ ...

The Government decision comes after experts recommended indefinite restrictions while work is done to ensure the safety of children and young people.

The Queen got into the festive spirit by helping to light a Christmas pudding during a lunch for volunteers and joked – “hold on to your hair”.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has formally set Germany on course for an early election by requesting a confidence vote in parliament next week.

Contraband is brought in to prisons in “children’s nappies” and through the use of “drone drops” by organised criminal gangs, MPs have been told. This came as prisons minister Lord Timpson called for ...

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said many family farms felt the changes announced in the budget would be ‘the final blow’.

Transgender women will be banned from playing in the female category in most domestic tennis competitions in Britain from next month.

Apple Intelligence, the iPhone maker’s first range of generative AI tools, are now available to users in the UK.