Police who launched a murder investigation after an incident first reported as a serious crash say they are “considering other possibilities” in the circumstances of a 22-year-old woman’s death. Devon ...

River City star Stephen Purdon has said it was “overwhelming” to hear MSPs call on BBC bosses to save the long-running show. The actor plays Bob Adams – or Shellsuit Bob – in the Scottish soap, which ...

An LGBT MP has said she fears being confronted more often in women’s spaces after the Supreme Court ruling on gender. During a Lesbian Visibility Week debate in Westminster Hall, Kate Osborne told MPs ...

A 3p rise in Government funding paid to schools to provide free school meals will mean many schools will have to dip into already “stretched” budgets, a headteachers’ union has warned. The Department ...

While millennials like to “spill the beans”, Gen Z will ask you to “spill the tea”, a new study on the evolution of English phrases suggests. Popular English idioms are evolving as they pass from one ...

Transgender people could be treated in private rooms in the NHS, the Health Secretary has said, as he admitted wishing he had listened earlier to the debate around single-sex spaces. Wes Streeting ...

The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) urged countries to move “swiftly” to resolve trade disputes that threaten global economic growth. IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva said the ...

A former contestant on Britain’s Got Talent is accused of raping two women, a court heard. Andrew Johnston, 30, competed as a singer on the television programme in 2008, and is now on trial at ...