Authorities in eastern Pakistan have closed public parks, zoos, museums, historical buildings and playgrounds for 10 days as a record-breaking “smog wave” choked 18 districts of Punjab province, ...

Universal Credit claimants will see their payments automatically increase next year, after the DWP set new benefit rates from April 2025.

Israeli football fans have been attacked after a match in Amsterdam, with five people admitted to hospital and 62 arrested, Dutch police said. It was not clear how the violence began. Dutch and ...

TWO young farmers from Cumbria have been described as ‘dynamite’ for the industry, after winning the top two places in the Young Farmer of ...

Staff at the castle will now be preparing for the winter ahead and the new season ahead in 2025. In a video posted on social media, Ewan Frost-Pennington of Muncaster Castle said: "And so it is.

Asda’s chairman said he would try not to pass extra costs on to consumers, but ‘you can’t deny it will probably be inflationary to ...

Jonathan Powell will take over from Sir Tim Barrow in the role based in 10 Downing Street, the Cabinet Office said.

Take a look at the 2024 Christmas adverts from Asda, Sainsbury’s, M&S, Aldi, Lidl, Boots, Morrisons and Waitrose.

Scarves For Falklands Veterans was set up by Rachel Simons, who was an 11-year-old living in Stanley on the Falkland Islands, during the war.

Lidl is to mark the festive season by driving its own version of a Christmas cola truck to cities across the UK, as Coca-Cola announced the return of its own tour. The 20-metre, 15-tonne red truck ...

A man who poured petrol on a woman and set her on fire has pleaded guilty to murder after she died nearly two years on from the attack. Leigh Pateman, 45, previously admitted grievous bodily harm with ...

CUMBRIA Police searched two men under the Misuse of Drugs Act in West Cumbria. The men were stopped and searched in Whitehaven town centre. Officers were patrolling the town as part of Operation ...