The availability of jobs worsened further, with vacancy numbers dropping to 781,000 for the three months to March, the ONS said.

John Cleese has said his stage adaption of Fawlty Towers has been successful because 50 years on from the show’s 1975 TV debut it is still “funnier than anything else that’s on these days”.

Regulator Ofgem is to scrap the current first-come, first-served approach to the grid connections queue, which has left some projects facing decade-long delays. The new plan will see projects that can ...

Sir Keir Starmer had pledged to introduce the law before this year’s anniversary of the tragedy, which took place at the FA Cup semi-final in 1989.

Victory is virtually assured for the People’s Action Party which has led the city-state since independence in 1965.

Elevated levels of wage growth will be considered by Bank of England officials when they vote on whether to reduce interest rates from their current level, 4.5%, at their meeting next month. It came ...

The movie mogul’s rape conviction earned him a 23-year prison sentence but has been overturned because about his first trial.

The US is “working very hard” with the UK on negotiating a “great” trade deal, vice president JD Vance has said. US President Donald Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on imports to the United States ...

The Alawite Muslim group was seen as privileged during the rule of former leader Bashar Assad but has suffered repeated violence since his fall.

The A303 is closed this morning after a crash near Mere - it is expected to remain shut for several hours, National Highways has said.

The parent company of Pontins holiday parks has been charged with corporate manslaughter after part of a ceiling at a Somerset resort collapsed on guests six years ago. Eighteen people were injured at ...

In a comment article published in The Lancet Oncology, the researchers have called for radical action to head off deepening ...