The Home Office spent £15 million buying a derelict prison contaminated with asbestos amid political pressure to stop housing migrants in hotels, according to Whitehall’s spending watchdog.

UK economic growth slowed between July and September relative to the previous quarter, according to official data, in a blow to Chancellor Rachel Reeves. The economy grew by 0.1% over the period, ...

Donald Trump met on Thursday at his Mar-a-Lago club with Argentina’s President Javier Milei, the first foreign leader to meet with the president-elect since his victory in last week’s election. The ...

It is believed that a DAF GeoAmey prison transport vehicle collided with two pedestrians, South Yorkshire Police said.

The Onion’s bid was backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims to whom Alex Jones owes more than 1 billion dollars.

In her first Mansion House speech as Chancellor, Rachel Reeves announced plans for megafunds which she said could unlock £80 billion for investment.

A 17-year-old girl who died after fleeing a police vehicle and being struck by a car on the M5 motorway has been named. Tamzin Hall, from Wellington, was being transported to a custody suite in ...

Zayn Malik has rescheduled two of his Edinburgh shows “due to unforeseen circumstances”. The former One Direction member, 31, previously postponed his US leg of his Stairway To The Sky tour over the ...

The former universities minister says it was an ‘abdication of responsibility by recent governments’ to not take action sooner over fees.

The women told the BBC that Salah Fayed abused them in London, the south of France and Monaco between 1989 and 1997.

This was due to a points failure at Penmaenmawr, which is causing disruption to services to and from Holyhead and en route to Birmingham, Cardiff and Manchester. Transport for Wales said: "A points ...

Daniel Khalife was taken on a month-long trip to Iran to bring him “down to earth” when he was a badly behaved teenager, a court has heard. The 23-year-old, who joined the Army to escape his “very ...