Responding, environment minister Baroness Hayman of Ulloch said: “Regarding the company choosing KKR as its preferred bidder in the ongoing equity raise process, clearly Thames Water is a commercial ...

Some 9,885 people had been logged as making the journey from France as of Sunday, according to provisional Home Office figures for 2025.

Jess Phillips has suggested she is open to co-operating with Rupert Lowe’s private inquiry into grooming gangs. The Home Office minister said she was “more than happy” to meet the Independent MP to ...

The Duchess of Sussex has said she is enjoying a new “honeymoon” feeling with Harry since the pair got “a little bit of breathing space” after stepping back from their royal duties.

A man with a “crazed attitude to sex” groomed a schoolgirl and then enjoyed watching others further degrade her in a “den of iniquity”, a judge has said. Ashley Darbyshire, 28, targeted his victim ...

Home Office minister Jess Phillips said she expects local inquiries into grooming gangs will “go further” than the five already announced. During an urgent question in the Commons, Ms Phillips also ...

Helensburgh Community Council (HCC) members decided at their meeting on April 24 to contact property firm Savills pre-emptively ahead of a potential new plan. Taylor Wimpey and Helensburgh Golf Club ...

Belfast rap trio Kneecap are a “hate fest” that “promote division”, DUP leader Gavin Robinson has said. The Belfast East MP said that the promoter of a Kneecap gig in Belfast in August has questions ...

Police have arrested and charged a seventh person in connection with damage at US President Donald Trump’s Turnberry golf course. The 27-year-old woman was arrested and charged in Ayr on Sunday and is ...

A British lorry driver has pleaded not guilty to murdering his wife after her remains were found six years after she disappeared in Ireland. Richard Satchwell, 58, from Grattan Street in Youghal, Co ...

A one-year-old girl has died after a crash on a campsite in North Wales, police have said. Emergency services were called to reports of a collision involving the child and a vehicle at the Bryn Gloch ...

A WARNING for a very high to extreme risk of wildfires has been issued across parts of Scotland. The alert, which is in place from Monday, April 28, until Sunday, May 4, covers the north-east, central ...