An amber warning for heavy rain has been put in place across parts of North-West England until 9am on New Year’s Day.

Pupils, parents and teachers face “paying the price” of a new tax on private school fees, the Conservatives have warned after the Chancellor welcomed an end to the “VAT break”.

One disappointed tourist said they tried to get tickets back to London because the fireworks were still happening there.

The UK faces a “year of rebuilding” while also “rediscovering the great nation that we are” in 2025, according to Sir Keir Starmer.

Veteran radio DJ Johnnie Walker’s wife Tiggy has raised a glass to her “most devoted, loving husband” on New Year’s Eve after he died aged 79. In a post on X, she shared a picture of a bottle and ...

Chinese hackers have remotely accessed several US Treasury Department workstations and unclassified documents after ...

London’s New Year’s Eve fireworks event will go ahead at midnight despite weather concerns across the UK, Sir Sadiq Khan confirmed. Much of the country faces heavy rain and strong winds, and even snow ...

THREE people have been taken to hospital with serious injuries following a suspected gas explosion in Whitehaven. Emergency services remain on the scene following the incident at Hugh Street, Bransty, ...

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp accused Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer of ‘rewarding the failing Sadiq Khan’.

Police officers found two bodies when they attended a property in Anthony’s Avenue, Poole, Dorset, on Tuesday morning.

Three of seven lurcher puppies stolen just days after Christmas have been found but the search continues for four more, police said. The five-week-old dogs were reported stolen from Shroton in Dorset ...

People in some parts of the UK may have a chance of seeing the Northern Lights on New Year’s Eve, the Met Office said. People in the east of Scotland, north-east England and Northern Ireland could be ...