Chinese leader Xi Jinping has promised Malaysia and Vietnam greater access to Chinese markets as he tours south-east Asia ...

Unite the union says if guarantees that no worker will lose money could be put into writing by Birmingham City Council, a deal could be closer.

Hundreds of thousands of families across England are finding out on Wednesday which primary school their child will be joining in September.

Gary Lineker and Gabby Logan have sent good luck messages to runners from Churchtown  Primary School, who are taking on the London Marathon in memory of the Southport stabbing victims. The group of ...

Doctors in two end-of-life cases can be named, the Supreme Court has ruled, after the parents of two children said they wanted to “tell their story”. Isaiah Haastrup, aged 12 months, and Zainab Abbasi ...

The Financial Reporting Council said it had started looking at the audits conducted between March 2015 and March 2018.

Women’s clothes have swung from positive annual inflation in January (up 4.2%) to negative inflation in February (down 0.2%) then back to positive inflation in March (up 2.7%). Potatoes, cheese, ...

Control of Wiltshire Council could change for the first time in generation when voters go to the polls on May 1.

UK house prices jumped by 5.4% in the year to February – the fastest rate in more than two years, new official figures show. The annual rate increased from 4.8% in the year to January, according to ...

The terms “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act refer to a biological woman and biological sex, the Supreme Court has ruled. Campaign group For Women Scotland (FWS) brought a series of challenges – ...

The 42-year-old was jailed in October last year after admitting 10 breaches of an injunction barring him from repeating libellous allegations.

Israel’s defence minister has said troops will remain in so-called security zones in Gaza indefinitely. Israel Katz said Israeli forces “will remain in the security zones as a buffer between the enemy ...