Nearly one million workers in Britain’s jobs market have been “lost” because of poor and unreliable official data and the rate of UK unemployment and inactivity may have been overstated, a think tank ...

Passenger train services were delayed by the equivalent of more than 100 days in a year due to lorries hitting bridges, new figures show. Network Rail said 1,532 bridge strikes were reported in ...

A brown bear in Kent who underwent pioneering, life-saving brain surgery in October has made a “very encouraging” recovery after six weeks of rehabilitation. Boki became the first brown bear on record ...

Commuters face widespread travel disruption on Wednesday morning after parts of the UK saw heavy snowfall and ice. The Met Office put in place a yellow warning for ice for much of southern England, ...

Non-crime hate incidents should only be investigated by police where there is “a real risk of imminent criminality”, the shadow home secretary will say. Chris Philp will use a speech at a major ...

Sir Keir Starmer has said he has “no plans” to join the Bluesky social media platform. The Prime Minister told reporters that “at the moment” there are no plans to establish official Government ...

A FRESH weather warning has come into force for snow and ice across Ayrshire. The Met Office yellow warning runs from 7pm on Tuesday night until 10am on Wednesday morning. Snow and ice may lead to ...

Eric Trump has confirmed his younger brother Barron persuaded his father to go on a podcast tour as part of efforts to court Gen Z and millennial voters. Eric, Trump’s second son, said the ...

Russia’s “irresponsible rhetoric” on nuclear weapons will not deter UK support for Ukraine, Sir Keir Starmer has said. Vladimir Putin has lowered the threshold for nuclear weapons on the 1,000th day ...

The Taoiseach has branded as chilling a manifesto pledge from Sinn Fein to commission a review of RTE’s objectivity in its coverage of international conflicts. Mr Harris said the proposed examination ...

The US president-elect’s son said his father ‘loves’ Elon Musk and that the three recently attended a mixed martial arts event together.

Many farmers protesting over changes to inheritance tax are “wrong” about the policy, the Environment Secretary has said. Steve Reed rejected claims that the Government has underestimated how many ...