Labour needed a swing in the share of the vote of just 5.7 percentage points to win Blackpool South – but in the event they managed a huge 26.3 points. It is the third largest swing from the ...

Soap star Sherrie Hewson will join the cast of Hollyoaks, it has been announced. The Benidorm actress and actor Jeremy Sheffield will join the Blake family as mother and son duo Martha and Jez. The ...

Pro-Palestinian protesters are camping on university campuses across Australia, with some scuffling with pro-Israel protesters in Sydney – mirroring similar events in the United States. Students have ...

At least 30 people have accused a “cowboy builder” of conning them out of more than £440,000 for incomplete construction work over a period of more than 15 years. The group, most of whom have asked to ...

POLICE have issued an update after a teenage girl was rushed to hospital following a crash involving a bus on a major Bradford road. West Yorkshire Police was called to Manchester Road in Bradford at ...

China is preparing to launch a lunar probe that would land on the far side of the Moon and return with samples that could provide insights into geological and other differences between the ...

A Fawlty Towers reboot has been confirmed and writer John Cleese is writing new episodes alongside his daughter Camilla Cleese. Despite it being almost 50 years since the sitcom first appeared on our ...

Labour has won the Blackpool South parliamentary by-election and made gains in council contests to heap pressure on Rishi Sunak. In the contest triggered by the resignation of former Tory MP Scott ...

Counting is under way in the 107 councils in England that held elections on Thursday, with the first results declared overnight and more to come later on Friday. Early results for the police & crime ...

The Responder is returning for a second series on BBC One, with Martin Freeman back to lead the cast. It will follow his character Chris Carson, playing a morally compromised and unconventional urgent ...

Fuel prices have reached a five-month peak, exceeding 150p per litre, on average, across the UK," according to the team at Select ...

A tally by The Associated Press on Thursday found at least 50 incidents of arrests at 40 different US colleges or universities since April 18.