The head of a group of authorities in deprived areas across the North and the Midlands also called for capital investment in ‘left behind’ places.

Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte has said he sees no discrepancy between the UK’s current defence spending goals and his own push for members to reach 5% of GDP. The Nato chief would not reveal the ...

A football club that recently won promotion back to the Championship will be opening a pop-up store at Kent’s largest shopping centre.

North East London NHS Foundation Trust was found guilty of health and safety failings over the death of Alice Figueiredo.

A 14-year-old boy who was fatally stabbed in Manchester has been named by police as Ibrahima Seck, with his family paying tribute to him as “funny, caring and hardworking”. Ibrahima was found with ...

Around 250,000 pensioners in NI were affected when the payment was cut last year in a cost-saving measure by the new Labour government.