Three quarters of driving test centres at maximum wait time 2 hours agoTom Edgington & Anthony ReubenBBC VerifyGetty ImagesBBC Verify has found that three quarters of the 319 driving test centres...

Paddleboard firm owner jailed over river deaths28 minutes agoMaria CassidyBBC NewsA former paddleboard firm owner has been jailed for 10 years and six months after the deaths of four people on a...

Germany’s military has approached a number of major arms firms over whether they could provide logistics support in the event of a Russian attack on NATO’s eastern flank, according to reports....

Before the great Carl Giles was employed to entertain and delight readers with his cartoons in the Daily Express, his predecessor at the paper had been just as prodigious in the years preceding him....

Paddleboarder was guided to her death, court toldJust nowLucy VladevBBC NewsReporting fromSwansea Crown CourtMaria CassidyBBC NewsFamily photoA paddleboarder was "guided to her death", a court has...

Harvard University sues Trump administration to stop funding freeze57 minutes agoKwasi Gyamfi AsieduBBC NewsHarvard University has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration claiming that its...

More than eight million people are to be dragged into or forced higher up to higher tax thresholds over the next five years because successive governments have frozen the ladder, experts say. The...

Harvard University sues Trump administration to stop funding freeze8 hours agoKwasi Gyamfi AsieduBBC NewsReutersHarvard University filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration to stop...

Sir Keir Starmer has been condemned for snubbing Britain’s elderly after he arrogantly refused to respond to a petition pleading for pensioners not to be dragged into paying tax. Four weeks ago,...

It turns out the government’s indifference, if not outright hostility, to pensioners knows no bounds. First, they took away Winter Fuel payments for millions of people and now it seems that they...

Prison staff to demand electric stun guns in jails1 hour agoGeorge WrightBBC NewsPA MediaPrison officers are to demand that staff be immediately given electric stun guns to protect themselves while...

The UK’s primary language is of course English, and has been for many hundreds of years. The tongue has evolved as many different peoples, such as the Romans, Angles, Vikings and Normans, made the...

A Brit who recently visited Amsterdam has described nightmare scenes in the iconic canal city, with litter “spread around” the streets as if “whole bins had been overturned. The tourist, who...

Prison staff to demand electric stun guns in jails57 minutes agoGeorge WrightBBC NewsPA MediaPrison officers are to demand that staff be given electric stun guns to protect themselves while guarding...