The department, which employs around 17,000 people, faces real-terms cuts in its budget over the coming years following last month’s ...

A 15-year-old boy is on trial for the murder of Harvey Willgoose, who was stabbed during a lunch break at All Saints Catholic High School, Sheffield.

Post Office bosses should have known Horizon was faulty but “maintained the fiction that its data was always accurate” when prosecuting subpostmasters, the first tranche of a public inquiry’s final ...

Richard Shaw, 45, has been charged with fraud by abuse of position after the ‘comprehensive’ probe into Bolton Council.

A man has been taken to hospital after being shot by armed police outside a rural village pub in Kent. The shooting took place at around 9pm on Monday at The Park Gate Inn, in Hollingbourne, Kent.

Ofgem found more than 34,000 prepayment meter customers between 2014 and October 2023 did not receive final bills within six weeks.

Tory former Cabinet minister Lord Norman Tebbit, who has died aged 94, was an “icon in British politics”, Kemi Badenoch said. The Conservative grandee was one of Margaret Thatcher’s closest political ...

The FCA said Monzo’s financial fraud systems and controls ‘failed to keep pace’ with its rapid growth in customers numbers in recent years.

The Environment Agency will receive a cash injection of more than £189 million this financial year of 2025/26.

A teenager who chased people through Great Yarmouth in broad daylight while wielding a 40cm zombie knife has been jailed.

French president Emmanuel Macron said talks with the UK would also cover defence, security and nuclear energy.

Seraphine struggled amid rising costs and a difficult backdrop for consumer spending, according to administrators.