Charities and school leaders welcomed the change but urged the Government to reconsider the two-child benefit cap to ease poverty levels.

Confidence in the strength of the UK economy has fallen from 45% in May 2015 to 28% a decade later following a cost-of-living crisis, Brexit, Covid and geopolitical upheaval, according to a ...

A museum and national charity wants to raise enough money to secure it for permanent public display in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.

CBI boss Rain Newton-Smith is calling on the Government to draw up a ‘serious plan’ to cut power bills and invest in energy security.

Women are less likely than men to be given treatment for a potentially fatal heart condition, according to a new analysis. Researchers found women are 11% less likely to be referred to a hospital ...

Five of JMW Turner’s works are to be auctioned across three sales on the 250th anniversary of the painter’s birth. Born in 1775, Joseph Mallord William Turner was a painter and printmaker during the ...

Featured on the main set of six stamps are the Airy Transit Circle Telescope; Flamsteed House; the Great Equatorial Telescope, the largest refracting telescope in the UK; the Annie Maunder ...

First Minister John Swinney has urged voters in the Hamilton by-election to reject the “gutter politics” of Reform UK as polls open. The vote sparked by the death of Scottish Government minister ...

Farmers could be facing another terrible harvest after the hottest spring on record and the driest conditions in decades, analysis warns. The Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) think tank ...

The teenagers, who cannot be named because of their ages, were convicted of the manslaughter of Bhim Kohli at Leicester Crown Court in April.

It focuses on creatures such as the woolly mammoth, which roamed the Earth after the extinction of the dinosaurs.