David Lammy’s reforms of the courts system have been supported by MPs at their first Commons hurdle, despite accusations from his own backbench that he is using victims as a “cudgel” to push them ...

The Foreign Secretary has emphasised “close co-ordination” on Middle Eastern security in a call with her US counterpart as Washington threatened its “most intense day” of strikes on Iran. Yvette ...

Justice Secretary David Lammy has pleaded with MPs to support his plans to curb access to jury trials as Labour rebels indicated they could not support the reforms. Mr Lammy told MPs the choice was ...

A former IRA member has told the High Court in London that an image he says shows Gerry Adams wearing a beret at a funeral is proof he was in the organisation. Shane Paul O’Doherty added that there ...

James Murray said words to the effect of ‘if they can bleed, they can breed’, a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) tribunal ruling said.

The portrait, painted in around 1598 and attributed to Caravaggio in 1963, depicts Maffeo Barberini, a nobleman who later became Pope Urban VIII.

Big differences in prices at fuel pumps cannot ‘be blamed on Iran or what’s happening in the Gulf’, Ireland’s deputy premier has said.

The Tory leader insisted she was supportive of Britain’s armed forces and claimed the Government were using them as a ‘human shield’ ...

Police say several people are dead and several others injured after a bus caught fire in a town west of the Swiss capital. Authorities in the Fribourg canton, or region, said in a statement that an ...

In the third biggest UK National Lottery win of all time, one lucky player matched all five category main numbers, plus the two lucky star numbers to win £181,073,415.70, National Lottery operator ...

The Lords on Tuesday accepted a final draft of the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill, clearing the way for it to be added to the statute book.