Labour MP Josh MacAlister’s Bill would call for a legal requirement to be introduced so all schools in England are mobile-free zones.

Downing Street has rejected suggestions that Sir Keir Starmer received Taylor Swift tickets as a “thank you” after she was given taxpayer-funded police security while performing in London.

Sir Jonathan Michael is investigating how the bodies of people who have died are looked after around the country.

Three men have been found guilty of raping a ‘vulnerable’ teenage girl in Banbury . Damian Sidor, 28, of no fixed abode, Jaraslaw Szklarski, 56, of no fixed abode, and Patryk Kubacz, 30, of Edinburgh ...

Months of drought in southern Africa triggered by the El Nino weather phenomenon have had a devastating effect on more than 27 million people and caused the region’s worst hunger crisis in decades, ...

A DJ who confessed to rape on a YouTube video before attempting to launch a career as a “forgiveness” guru has been jailed for six years. Craig Strachan, 33, denied his crime during a trial at the ...

Emma Pinchbeck, who has been appointed as the new chief executive of the independent advisory Climate Change Committee but was speaking in her current role as head of industry body Energy UK, said the ...

TEENAGE track sensation Ebuka Nwokeji is running out of room to store his growing collection of medals but has no plans to put the brakes on ...

The state pension increases in line with whichever is the highest of earnings growth, CPI inflation in September of the previous year, or 2.5 ...

Exeter lock Dafydd Jenkins will miss Wales’ autumn internationals as he recovers from knee and shoulder operations. The 21-year-old, Wales captain throughout the Six Nations earlier this year, has ...

A murder investigation has been launched after a man in his 40s died in a shooting in Tottenham, police said. Officers were called to Waltheof Gardens, N17, at 9am on Tuesday following reports of a ...

Albania’s prime minister said on Tuesday that Tirana has turned down many requests from other European Union countries to take in thousands of asylum seekers but made an exception for Italy. An ...