Periods of heavy rain may hit parts of south-east Scotland and north-east England later on Tuesday through to Wednesday and weather warnings are possible until mid-week as rain falls on already wet ...

One of the remaining four Tory leadership hopefuls will be knocked out of the race to replace Rishi Sunak on Tuesday as Conservative MPs vote to narrow the field to three. The parliamentary party will ...

A screen-matched Star Wars Stormtrooper helmet could fetch up to £500,000 at an entertainment memorabilia auction in London. More than 1,800 lots will be sold during Propstore’s TV and film auction ...

The mother of the sole British hostage still in Gaza a year after she was taken by Hamas has pleaded for her safe return, saying: “I need her back with me now, alive, before it is too late for her.” ...

Craig Bellamy has warned his Wales captain Aaron Ramsey against taking up a player-coach role at Cardiff. Ramsey was recently awarded his UEFA A Licence and has been linked with a Cardiff coaching job ...

Houston died on Monday morning in her New Jersey home while under hospice care for Alzheimer’s disease, her family said.

Australia’s bid received a shot in the arm after India’s shock defeat by New Zealand last week although Sciver-Brunt is ...

Politicians should “cut all the flim-flam” and drop rhetoric which is “damaging public confidence” in the NHS, Victoria Atkins has warned. In a Commons debate about Lord Darzi’s NHS investigation, the ...

Conservative Party leadership hopeful Tom Tugendhat repeatedly shouted “not true” as Mr Lammy set out the reasons behind the Government’s decision to relinquish sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, ...

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has suggested that migrants who are in the US and have committed murder did so because “it’s in their genes”. There are, he added, “a lot of bad genes in ...

The Lower Thames Crossing proposal is aimed at reducing congestion on the Dartford Crossing with a new motorway-style road.