The UK’s new car market returned to growth in May with a 1.6% increase in registrations, figures show. Industry body the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said 150,070 new cars were ...

Outsourcing firm Mitie has agreed a takeover of Lord Ashcroft-founded specialist services firm Marlowe in a deal worth around £366 million. Under the terms of the cash-and-shares deal, Mitie will pay ...

Nato defence ministers are set to approve purchasing targets for stocking up on weapons and military equipment to better defend Europe, the Arctic and the North Atlantic, as part of a US push to ramp ...

The figures come as the Government announced plans to expand free lunches to all pupils in families that claim universal credit from September 2026.

A former police officer who was sacked because of his “aggressive” detention of a 15-year-old boy has said he is being treated like an “abuser” and is appealing his case. Lorne Castle was dismissed by ...

Voters in the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse seat are electing a new MSP following the death earlier this year of Christina McKelvie.

Severe storms in southern Germany forced a Ryanair flight to make an emergency landing late on Wednesday after violent turbulence injured nine people on board, German police said.

The UK’s headline inflation figure was 0.1 percentage points too high for April due to an error in the vehicle tax data collected, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said. Official data ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the bodies of Judih Weinstein and Gad Haggai had been returned to Israel.

Kemi Badenoch is expected to set up a review that will look into whether the UK should withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights. The commission will examine whether Britain should pull ...

At least five people, including a one-year-old child, were killed in a Russian drone strike on the northern Ukrainian city of Pryluky overnight, regional governor Viacheslav Chaus said. The attack ...

The winner of an annual cheese rolling race in Gloucestershire has donated her prize to a food charity in London.