Bus passengers could be banned from playing loud music under proposals to change the law set out by the Tories. Commuters on train journeys could also benefit from tougher enforcement of existing ...

Strictly dismisses claims it will introduce new 'switch-up' week . The new change was said to only last one week, giving celebrities just one chance to switch who they dance with ...

A record half a million people have received a dementia diagnosis on the NHS, figures show. NHS figures published this week show 506,549 people have received a formal dementia diagnosis, compared with ...

A man who died after suffering serious head injuries in a “workplace accident” at a funfair has been named by police. Emergency services rushed to the Spanish City Summer Funfair in Whitley Bay in ...

Police are searching for a driver who crashed into a fence and a sign on Hartside Pass over the weekend. A driver left a metal post ‘sticking out on a hairpin bend’ and ‘destroyed’ a fence which ...

A coastguard helicopter was called to help with the rescue of a walker who fell 100 metres in the Lake District.

The Home Secretary wants to give a new adjudication panel the power to decide asylum appeals to speed up the process.

The festival began early on Sunday with the J’ouvert celebration where people covered each other in paint, coloured powder and chocolate.

Jerry Adler, who spent decades behind-the-scenes of storied Broadway productions before pivoting to acting in his 60s, has died at 96. Adler died on Saturday, according to a brief family announcement ...

Sightings of great white sharks are on the rise in the waters off the north-east coast of the United States – an area where ...

At least one person was killed on Sunday in an explosion at a prominent retail building in central Moscow, emergency services said. The blast happened on the third floor of the Central Children’s ...

Police are appealing for help to find a missing teenager from Barrow. Shauna Murray, 17, is believed to be in the Workington area, although she also has connections to Millom. She is described as ...