Baroness Therese Coffey told the House of Lords that she had been advised to knowingly break the law, but said ‘I wasn’t prepared to do that’.

Females born between 2020 and 2022 in the most deprived areas of England were likely to spend just 65.1% of their lives in good health, compared with 81.5% in the least deprived a ...

Huda Ammori, the co-founder of Palestine Action, is asking the High Court to temporarily block the Government from banning the group as a terrorist organisation before a potential legal challenge ...

A coach carrying passengers from Denmark to Austria has skidded off a road in northern Germany and flipped over, injuring more than 20 people including one seriously. The coach, operated by Flixbus, ...

Two brothers used a “high level of violence” in assaulting police officers at Manchester Airport, a jury has heard. Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 20, and Muhammad Amaad, 26, are said to have struck out after ...

A 15-year-old boy is on trial accused of murdering Harvey Willgoose, also 15, at All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield.

The BBC’s director of music Lorna Clarke has stepped back from her day-to-day duties after controversy over the broadcaster’s decision to show punk duo Bob Vylan’s Glastonbury Festival set live, ...

Paul Martin has appeared in court charged with encouraging terrorism, possessing articles for the purposes of terrorism, and possessing a stun gun.

Everyone who arrives in the UK on a small boat where a child has died should face prosecution, the Home Secretary has said. Yvette Cooper told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme it was “totally appalling” ...

Michael Madsen, whose menacing characters in Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill made him a standout performer in Quentin ...

Thousands of tourists, hotel workers and residents have been evacuated from the Ierapetra area on Crete’s southern coast.