Sir Keir Starmer will call on the 40 countries gathering in London for a summit to work together to stop people-smuggling gangs.

Chelsea Flower Show organisers have rowed back on a pledge to make the event peat-free by next year, blaming a “legislative black hole” on the issue. The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) committed in ...

The majority of young adults in the UK are “concerned” about the state of the nation’s democracy, a survey has found. The UK Youth Poll survey saw more than 2,000 people aged 16 to 29 questioned about ...

The women worked as nannies and private air stewards for the former Harrods boss between 1995 and 2012, their lawyers said.

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has vowed to replace the Conservatives as the “party of Middle England”, as he launches his local election campaign. The Lib Dems are hoping to erode the ...

The health department has announced that it has reached an agreement with Community Pharmacy England for a funding increase over two years.

A gender gap in barriers to cycling has widened in the past seven years, a new survey suggests. Cycling UK, the charity which commissioned the poll of 2,204 UK adults, said infrastructure investment ...

World Cup-winning former footballer Cesc Fabregas and Google DeepMind co-founder Sir Demis Hassabis have been added to the line-up for the SXSW (South By Southwest) London conference.

Driving test waiting times in Britain have reached a record high, new research has revealed. The average waiting time to book a practical test was 20 weeks in February, up from 14 weeks a year earlier ...

The maximum possible wait time for a test is 24 weeks, which 183 test centres currently have. In comparison to last year, this has almost doubled from 94 test centres with that wait time. The DVSA's ...

A British explorer has become the first woman to solo traverse across Canada’s freezing Baffin Island a day earlier than expected. Camilla Hempleman-Adams battled temperatures as low as minus 40C and ...

Healthy peatlands can help tackle climate change, reduce flood risk, improve water quality and support rare wildlife.