Actor and comedian Russell Brand has been handed a fine after pleading guilty to speeding. The 49-year-old was caught driving his Mini at 95mph on the M4 on June 16 last year near Slough in Berkshire, ...

Mozambique’s main opposition leader has returned from self-imposed exile saying he still rejects the results of a disputed ...

The TV presenter said he has lived in Herefordshire for 34 years and noticed that flooding in the area has ‘definitely got worse’.

MPs heard the Conservatives ‘mothballed’ part of the scheme after scrapping plans to build a high-speed line between Birmingham and Manchester.

Police in Spain have been given another 72 hours to question a 32-year-old man they arrested earlier this week.

Former Scotland rugby union captain Stuart Hogg will be supervised for a year as an alternative to jail after he admitted abusing his estranged wife over the course of five years. He pleaded guilty to ...

Large parts of the UK continue to face yellow weather warnings for snow and ice on Thursday, with another ‘very cold night’ expected.

Breast Cancer Now said olaparib will be an ‘valuable alternative’ for patients with a certain type of secondary breast cancer.

The north west is the subject of a further yellow weather warning for ice, issued by the Met Office. This warning will come into effect from 4pm this afternoon, Thursday, and it will remain in place ...

Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) at Avanti West Coast will launch a series of Sunday walkouts.

They were called to the incident on Mersey View Road at around 8.15pm. Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus used a hose reel jet to extinguish the fire. A high-pressure fan was used to clear smoke ...

Some 46,006 Palestinians had been killed and 109,378 wounded in the ongoing 15-month conflict, the ministry said as it updated its toll on Thursday.