The South Basildon and East Thurrock MP said he had ‘decided to continue my parliamentary career as an independent MP’.

Flights scheduled at Marseille Airport have been suspended after a wildfire raged close to the southern French port city, local authorities said. The prefecture urged people in the affected areas to ...

Royal Dress justified strong market support with an emphatic victory in the Weatherbys Hamilton Pipalong Stakes at Pontefract. James Tate’s mare won at Listed and Group Three level last season and ...

Go and change the game,” was the final instruction from Sarina Wiegman as she sent Michelle Agyemang onto the pitch at Stadion Letzigrund ...

Hope of finding survivors of the catastrophic flooding in Texas dimmed a day after the death toll surpassed 100, and crews kept up the search for people missing in the aftermath. The search efforts ...

A Scottish postmaster who was wrongly convicted under the Horizon scandal says Fujitsu is getting away “scot-free” from its role in the affair. Rab Thomson welcomed the first tranche of Sir Wyn ...

A public inquiry into the murders of three girls at a Southport dance class will identify changes that urgently need to be made to protect the most vulnerable from other “horrors”, the chairman has ...

The black-tailed skimmer dragonfly was spotted by volunteers at the Bog Meadows Nature Reserve in west Belfast.

A volunteer from Driffield RFC hopes to use a national award as ‘a platform’ to show other clubs what is possible with their girls’ ...

SCOTLAND'S Holly McIntyre is not underestimating the threat posed by Wales in their second fixture of the 2025 Six Nations Women’s Summer ...

French state-owned electricity company EDF said it had agreed in principle to invest £1.1 billion in the power plant on the Suffolk coastline.

British team Anastasia Vaipan-Law and Luke Digby are on a mission to prove there is more to their sport than step sequences and Bolero’s.