Yields on UK Government bonds – known as gilts – have jumped to levels not seen for decades amid worries over high Government borrowing and the economic outlook. This has had a knock-on effect on the ...

Data from the Department for Education (DfE) shows that the unauthorised absence rate across state schools in England was 3.4% in the week ending December 20 – which was the last week of term. This ...

The Prime Minister will be ‘guided by the victims’, his official spokesman said, following a Commons showdown over a new inquiry.

Mr Lynch said he was incredibly proud to have served the RMT both as a rank-and-file member and an elected officer.

Lebanon’s parliament has voted to elect the country’s army commander Joseph Aoun as head of state, filling a more than two-year-long presidential vacuum. The session was the legislature’s 13th attempt ...

Plans for sanctions on the finances of people-smuggling networks will ‘prevent, combat, deter and disrupt irregular migration’, Mr Lammy said.

A celebrity osteopath who has pleaded guilty to three counts of voyeurism is under further police investigation after the discovery of more recording devices, a court has heard.

Labour will not “cease and desist from telling the truth” about Liz Truss’s “kamikaze budget”, the House of Commons Leader has vowed. Lucy Powell defended her party’s first six months in Government ...

Shares plunged as boss Stuart Machin also cautioned of an ‘uncertain’ economic picture, taking the shine off bumper Christmas trading.

Scottish Labour abstaining in the vote on the Scottish Government’s Budget amounts to the “cheapest” deal on the tax and spending plans since devolution, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives has ...

A report to health chiefs said more than a third of five-year-olds in the borough  had experienced dental decay.

Hundreds of schools have been closed across northern Scotland amid a weather warning for snow and ice which has been extended until Friday. The Met Office yellow weather warning covers Aberdeen, ...