Plans to connect four UK islands via a £500million underground tunnel service have advanced. This comes after Shetland councillors agreed to move forward with the proposals for the...

The Defence Secretary has called plans to boost the UK's military might a "message to Moscow" but said he does not expect to raise the number of soldiers until the next parliament.The Government has...

Labour has been urged to delay its controversial inheritance tax raid on farmers by a year. MPs on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee called on the Government to look again at the...

A fraudulent joiner who duped nearly 70 customers out of over £100,000 in a sham garden shed and summerhouse scheme has been sentenced to more than three years in prison.Alistair Baxter, 36,...

What is it about the Second World War? As a crime writer, it’s often struck me as odd that although most people would be disgusted by a real murder – if it were to take place outside their house...

A wave of outrage is sweeping across Wales as hundreds of second-home and holiday let owners are being hit with unexpected and crippling five-figure council tax bills. The charges come in the wake of...