Rail services are severely disrupted this evening following reports a person has been hit by a train on a busy main line.

Gillingham didn’t get the result they needed on Tuesday at Stevenage but the manager had plenty to be pleased about.

Inheritance tax reforms introduced in the Chancellor’s Autumn Budget are already having a “chilling effect” on farming and rural businesses in Scotland, John Swinney has said.

When Justin Welby steps down he will be succeeded by the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury. There are more than 100 bishops in the Church of England, including 42 diocesan bishops. Here, the PA news ...

Downing Street said there were ‘no plans’ for further updates on whether the envoy position might be taken up by someone else ...

The findings might shed light on the link between loneliness and mental health conditions such as anxiety disorders, researchers say.

The football star is the vice president of Debra UK which raises awareness of epidermolysis bullosa, a group of genetic skin ...

Hundreds of Post Office branches wholly owned by the company face closure under new plans to fix its finances (Rui Vieira/PA) The Post Office is to set out a “transformation plan” in a bid to fix its ...

A woman who claims she was raped by Irish mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor suffered serious physical and ...

Samantha Harvey, the 2024 winner of the Booker Prize, is a former museum worker turned author. Before snapping up the £50,000 literary prize on Tuesday for her novel Orbital, she said that she would ...

Tributes have been paid to Mr Duhan, 74, who had written songs recorded by artists such as Christy Moore, The Dubliners and Mary Black.

British author Samantha Harvey has become the first woman since 2019 to win the Booker Prize. Her book Orbital, about astronauts looking down at Earth, was named as the winner of the £50,000 prize and ...