Members of the largest education union in the UK have voted to accept the Government’s 5.5% pay rise for teachers in England. In a National Education Union (NEU) snap poll, 95% of members who ...

The mother of a jailed British-Egyptian pro-democracy writer has started a hunger strike, saying: “I will not eat again until Alaa is released.” Alaa Abd El-Fattah, 42, has been detained since ...

A school caretaker is planning to take early retirement after scooping more than £183,000 on EuroMillions – and has helped to ...

Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves “sees more black holes than Mr Spock”, a Conservative leadership hopeful has claimed. Tom Tugendhat said October’s Budget could “destroy growth” in the UK and he ...

The Conservatives’ social media strategy is “10 years out of date”, according to leadership candidate Robert Jenrick. Mr Jenrick labelled the party’s strategy as “really poor” during the general ...

A New Mexico judge has upheld an involuntary manslaughter conviction against a movie armourer in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film Rust.

The assassination attempt was thwarted when a member of the Secret Service protective detail spotted Routh’s rifle barrel.

The UK Government is doing “everything we can” to help Britons flee Lebanon, Downing Street has said. Foreign Secretary David Lammy chaired a ministerial meeting of the Cobra emergency committee on ...

The UK’s top civil servant Simon Case has announced he will step down at the end of the year on health grounds. Cabinet Secretary Mr Case, who has been undergoing treatment for a neurological ...

Gavin Mitchell, who played Boaby the Barman in the hugely popular BBC series, is heading to the Helensburgh and Lomond Civic Centre on Friday, October 18 with his latest production, Look Who It Isnae ...

Italian police have arrested 19 people, accused of criminal ties with the powerful ‘Ndrangheta mafia group, in a move that decimated the fan clubs backing Serie A teams Inter Milan and AC Milan.