The Government’s new reading test for year 8s will sit alongside new “diagnostic” maths and writing tests to help teachers ...

A double manhunt is under way for an Algerian convicted sex offender and another prisoner who were wrongly released from HMP ...

I say to my colleagues on the frontbench that I will be with you every step of the way as we do just that,’ the former deputy ...

Donald Trump’s man in London reiterated the US president’s demands for the UK to pay pharmaceutical companies more money.

A body has been found in the search for missing 53-year-old postman Darren Willis. Mr Willis was reported missing from his ...

In its current form, the draft legislation, which applies only to England and Wales, would mean terminally ill adults with ...

Ireland’s deputy premier has said he will be raising the case of murdered Co Tyrone teacher Michaela McAreavey with Mauritian ...

Neil Duncan-Jordan (Poole) said the proposed measure would help replace income tax and national insurance sums that would be ...

He was freed from the jail, which was put into special measures last year, on October 29, but the mistake was only reported ...

Nicole Short has spoken publicly for the first time since the death of the father-of-two in Kirkcaldy, Fife, in May 2015.

Dame Patricia’s funeral was held at Chichester Cathedral in West Sussex, where the range of productions she starred in was ...