A 13-year-old girl has appeared in court charged with murder and arson after the body of a woman was found in a house in Northamptonshire. The teenager, who appeared in the dock clutching a teddy bear ...

Four men have been convicted of attempting to smuggle £100 million of cocaine on a fishing boat off the coast of Cornwall. Michael Kelly, 45, from Portway, Manchester, and Jake Marchant, 27, of no ...

A WEST Somerset events venue is setting up to host an opera performance that will look to blow people away. The Somerset Opera brings that favourite of all Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic operas HMS ...

Nicola Sturgeon can be proud of “changing the lives of people in Scotland for the better”, Scotland’s First Minister has said after she announced she will stand down at the next Holyrood election.

TAUNTON town councillors have voted to continue locking Vivary Park maintaining the current ‘status-quo’. The current signs state the park closes ‘by dusk’ and several councillors said they were in ...

Choppers starred in the 1970s PG Tips adverts after being rescued from poachers in Sierra Leone at just six weeks old.

A partial lunar eclipse will take place in the UK just before dawn on Friday. The moon will darken as it moves into Earth’s shadow and will eventually turn red, earning its “blood moon” nickname. In a ...

The New Lion lived up to the hype with a battling victory in the Turners Novices’ Hurdle on the second day of the Cheltenham Festival.

Sir Keir Starmer has faced a backlash over rumoured welfare cuts, with one Labour MP pleading with the Prime Minister to make the “moral” choice. Richard Burgon told the Commons disabled people are ...