Scotland is braced for heavy rain on Friday as the first of two named storms sweeps in. A Met Office yellow warning for rain ...

The Louvre and several other major Paris museums will be closed on Saturday over concerns about potential violence during planned protests, France’s culture ministry said. In a statement to The ...

UK businesses have reported the strongest growth for eight months, according to new figures, in a positive signal ahead of the Budget. New early figures showed that firms were boosted by the sharpest ...

The Duchess of Sussex has said she is “deeply distressed” by accusations her father had a hoard of child sex abuse images. Meghan’s half-brother, Thomas Markle Jr, alleged that he had found a stash of ...

Just before 11am on Friday, more than 16,000 homes were without power in the South West thanks to Storm Austen.

A Cambridge University professor has retained his world tiddlywinks title after seeing off an American challenger nicknamed the Dragon. Tiddlywinks is a game in which players try to get small plastic ...

Mr Burnham thanked firefighters and said the response to the emergency showed the “best of Britain”, but said he had brought together fire chiefs, industry leaders, ministers and academics to take ...

Four Loganair flights linking Exeter with Jersey and Edinburgh are cancelled as Storm Austen brings high winds and wider travel disruption to Devon.

The first storm of the season has hit the island of Ireland with the second due over the weekend. Around 3,000 homes farms and businesses were without electricity at 7am on Friday as a result of Storm ...