Ministers have announced plans to expand free school meals to all pupils in England in families on universal credit from September 2026.

Liverpool have rebuffed an approach by Barcelona for winger Luis Diaz. The Colombia international has been a target for the LaLiga champions for some time, although he has also been attracting ...

The Betfred Oaks may be missing from both William Buick and Charlie Appleby’s CV, but the leading rider is backing 1000 Guineas heroine Desert Flower to fill that void at Epsom on Friday.

A man who baited birds of prey with pheasants coated in rat poison has been ordered to carry out 135 hours of unpaid work. Clive Burgoyne, 38, of Forfar in Angus, left four pheasant carcasses gutted ...

Enigmatic Cyriel Dessers has often been a frustrating figure since signing from Cremonese in 2023 but ended up top scorer in the Premiership last season with 18 goals while he netted 29 times for ...

The Prime Minister said the situation in Gaza was ‘intolerable’ and No 10 stressed that Israel had obligations under international ...

The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, which is made up of religious and lay experts in fighting abuse as well as survivors, called the hour-ong audience a “significant moment of ...

Mark Rutte will visit Sheffield Forgemasters with Defence Secretary John Healey, and give a speech at Chatham House.

Novak Djokovic says the key to Friday’s French Open semi-final is not how he is going to stop Jannik Sinner, but how the world number one is going to stop him. Djokovic reached his 51st grand slam ...

Kemi Badenoch “will get better”, one of her senior shadow ministers has said as the Conservative leader continues to languish in the polls. Shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride insisted Mrs Badenoch is ...

A senior doctor should have referred a teenager to intensive care when she displayed several “high-risk indicators” of sepsis days before she died, a medical tribunal has found.

England bowler Brydon Carse admitted he considered a drastic remedy for his troublesome toe injury before being persuaded to settle on a less-severe solution than amputation. Carse has battled against ...