Kent leaders have made fresh calls urging the government to "finish the job" and extend the Elizabeth Line to the county. Dartford MP Jim Dickson (Lab) has asked the new Labour administration to look ...

Rail services are severely disrupted this evening following reports a person has been hit by a train on a busy main line.

The scheme gives 16 to 17-year-olds volunteering opportunities to help them to gain skills and build their confidence.

NatWest has blocked messaging platforms including WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Skype on corporate devices amid the wider industry clampdown on staff misusing apps at work. The UK banking group ...

Revenge porn should be made a statutory civil offence to allow victims redress without having to go through a “retraumatising” criminal trial, MPs have been told. In a Westminster Hall debate on ...

The Liverpool-born singer-songwriter was made an MBE by the Prince of Wales on Tuesday for her services to the music industry.

A disability rights campaigner opposed to the assisted dying bill has argued care services should be prioritised over the “naive” proposal. The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill will be debated ...

Local government minister Jim McMahon said officials will be appointed to oversee improvements at Tower Hamlets Council.

The Makin Review concluded that prolific abuser John Smyth might have been brought to justice had the archbishop formally alerted authorities in 2013.

The Archbishop of Canterbury said his resignation after days of pressure following a damning report into abuse cover-up is in ...

Downing Street said there were ‘no plans’ for further updates on whether the envoy position might be taken up by someone else ...

Donors and “cronies” should be removed from the House of Lords, an SNP MP has said, as he called for the upper chamber to be abolished altogether. Pete Wishart described Parliament’s second chamber as ...