Iwao Hakamada was sentenced to death for the murders of four people in 1966 but was not executed, due to Japan’s lengthy ...

Some 68,265,200 people were likely to have been resident in the UK in the middle of last year, up 662,400 from 67,602,800 12 ...

A Burnley FC season ticket holder has been handed a football banning order for posting a racist Facebook message about a Chelsea player.

“Loud screeching” sounded a warning for a firearms officer who leapt away moments before the driver of a suspect car was fatally shot by a colleague, a court has heard. Martyn Blake, 40, is on trial ...

Two teenagers have been arrested after a motorbike was stolen in Nelson. The bike was spotted by officers in the Hapton area, just otuside Accrington this morning. The search ended on Accrington Road, ...

A further vote by MPs on Wednesday will reduce the field to a final two who will then go to a ballot of Tory members.

Murdo Fraser remains responsible for business, the economy and tourism, while Meghan Gallacher is now housing spokeswoman.

Harry Maguire will be sidelined for “a few weeks” with the injury he picked up on Sunday. The Manchester United defender had to be helped off the pitch late on in the first half of Sunday’s draw ...

The Scottish Hospitals Inquiry is investigating the construction of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow.

England suffered a chaotic second day in Multan, watching Pakistan pile up 556 to take control of the first Test before their response was undermined by a worrying thumb injury for opener Ben Duckett.

The ringleader of a plot to smuggle £76 million of cocaine into Britain from Ecuador in consignments of bananas is appealing against his 20-year prison sentence. James Stevenson, 59, known as The ...

Downing Street insisted the Government would ‘absolutely deliver’ on its pledge to restore economic stability.