A children’s cancer charity has praised comedian Alan Carr as its “faithful patron”, after receiving a £87,500 donation from his Celebrity Traitors victory. Neuroblastoma UK described the Chatty Man ...

“I’m stepping down from elected politics after 27 years, which I think is long enough for anybody, but I’m never going to lose my interest in an appetite for political debate and trying to use my ...

Kate and Gerry McCann have said they “take no pleasure in the result” after a Polish woman, who claimed to be their missing daughter Madeleine, was convicted of harassing them, adding that they “only ...

West Midlands Police have thanked the community living around Villa Park after the Europa League match between Aston Villa and Maccabi Tel Aviv passed off without serious disorder.

Prosecutors in Tanzania charged dozens of people with treason over their alleged roles in violence surrounding the country’s ...

A Polish woman who claimed to be Madeleine McCann faces deportation after being convicted of harassing the missing girl’s parents by turning up at their home and repeatedly begging for a DNA test.

A grandmother who was facing execution by firing squad has arrived back in the UK after being repatriated from Bali. Lindsay Sandiford was sentenced to death on the Indonesian island in January 2013 ...

The PA news agency looks at the reasoning and ramifications behind talks from Sky to buy ITV’s television business.

Justice Secretary David Lammy admitted there was a “mountain to climb” to tackle the crisis in the prison system following the arrest of wrongly-released Brahim Kaddour-Cherif. Algerian national ...

First Minister John Swinney welcomed SSEN Transmission’s investment as ‘great news’ for the country’s workforce and renewables sector.

The 50-year-old is on trial at the Old Bailey accused of molesting a girl in the late 1980s and raping a woman more than 20 years later.

A 66-year-old man who “dreamt about being like James Bond” has been jailed for seven years after he was convicted of trying to spy for what he believed to be Russian intelligence service agents.