Business activity across the UK’s private sector has hit a one-year high this month, as the services industry led a summer rebound, according to new survey data. Firms nevertheless have been cutting ...

A young shepherd set the baa high with her GCSE results when she arrived to collect them with her sheep, Kevin. Milly Johnson, 16, who has won awards for sheep-handling, brought along the North ...

Ethel Caterham, of Lightwater, Surrey, who was born in August 1909, succeeded to the title of oldest living person in April.

Historically, experts classified giraffes as a single species with nine subspecies, but that has been overturned by the new classification.

The number of asylum seekers being housed temporarily in UK hotels has risen by 8% under Labour on the same point last year, according to newly published data.

Merseyside Police said the fire at Woolton Hall, Liverpool, on Tuesday ‘appears to have been an extremely reckless act’.

Barry Williams, Poundland’s managing director, said sticking to the £1 price point had prevented it from selling products that customers had to visit rival stores to buy. The chain billed the move as ...

Five fire engines were called to an address in Burnley on Tuesday night (August 19). At around 7.40pm, fire crews from Burnley and Padiham were called to Claremont Street. It was a waste fire outside ...

Middleshaw Hills care home hosted a summer fair raising more than £300 for charity. The Clitheroe-based care home opened its doors to the community on Saturday, August 17. Residents, families, and ...

Here are the main numbers and trends in this year’s GCSE results: ...

London and south-east England have seen larger year-on-year falls in the GCSE pass rate than all other regions, the 2025 exam figures show. Some 71.6% of entries in London were awarded grade 4 or ...

Russian forces launched more than 600 drones and missiles overnight, striking an American electronics factory in the west of Ukraine.