The Queen has said The Archers actress June Spencer will be “greatly missed” following her death aged 105. Spencer had played matriarch Peggy Woolley in the BBC Radio 4 show since its first episode in ...

The Metropolitan Police has referred itself to the police watchdog over complaints from two women about the handling of investigations into allegations made against Mohamed Al Fayed. The two women ...

In recent weeks Mbonisi, the first calf to adult giraffe Ruby, developed a second infection and his condition deteriorated.

WARRINGTONIAN Jodie Cunningham is in contention to win women’s international rugby league’s biggest individual honour. The 32-year-old former Cardinal Newman High School student has been named on the ...

The blast happened in Violet Close, in the Benwell and Elswick area of the city, in the early hours of October 16.

World number one Luke Humphries has told people to lay off transgender player Noa-Lynn van Leuven and says she is not breaking any rules ahead of creating history this weekend. The 28-year-old, who ...

Jamie George has urged England to be bold when they face Australia at Allianz Stadium with the ambition of kick-starting their autumn campaign.

Debutante Zheng Qinwen continued her brilliant run of form to reach the final of the WTA Finals in Riyadh. The Chinese star went into her semi-final against Barbora Krejcikova having won 30 of her ...

A council has been fined £500,000 after a tree limb fell and killed a man walking his dog in a public park. Father-of-one Chris Hall was out with his cocker spaniel Benson on a path in The Carrs, a ...

Ollie Watkins will face the Liverpool captain for the first time since England’s Euro 2024 semi-final victory over the Netherlands this summer.

A schizophrenic man who stabbed his mother to death outside their family home after he had delusions that she was the leader of a war tribe has been handed a life sentence subject to a hospital order.

A couple in Great Sankey have been ‘overwhelmed’ by support from customers after the incredibly successful opening of their new café, Number 9.