DEMENTIA and Alzheimer’s disease are the leading cause of death in Jersey, accounting for one-in-ten deaths, newly released ...

The wife of a British citizen who has been imprisoned in Dubai for 17 years has urged Sir Keir Starmer to do more to secure his release. Heather Cornelius delivered a letter to 10 Downing Street on ...

A rare painting by LS Lowry originally bought for £10 is expected to sell for up to £1 million nearly 100 years later. The painting, Going To The Mill, was bought by Arthur Wallace for £10 in 1926 and ...

Key industries in Scotland cannot be allowed to be “hollowed out”, First Minister John Swinney said, as he pledged his Government would “play its part” in preventing such an outcome. The SNP leader ...

A blackout has brought much of Spain and Portugal to a standstill. Subway and railway trains have been halted, phone service has been unavailable and traffic lights and cash machines have not been ...

Comedian Milton Jones revealed he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and has cancelled a number of UK tour dates as he undergoes surgery. The 60-year-old, who is known for his appearances on Mock ...

A climber airlifted with altitude sickness from near the peak of Japan’s Mount Fuji last week returned to the slope and was rescued for a second time just four days later, authorities have said.

A former aide to Health Secretary Wes Streeting has been spared jail after exposing himself to a teenage girl and following her. Samuel Gould, 33, of Hornchurch, Essex, who was also a councillor in ...

Vera actress Brenda Blethyn is to lead a new Channel 4 adaptation of Barbara Taylor Bradford’s novel A Woman Of Substance. The eight-episode series is a rags-to-riches tale set in 1911 that follows ...

A Labour MP has written to organisers of the Glastonbury Festival, urging them to remove hip hop trio Kneecap from the bill after a member of the group allegedly called for the death of Conservative ...

The government body responsible for calculating council tax and business rates is to be scrapped in the latest move to cull quangos and cut costs. The Valuation Office Agency (VOA) will be disbanded ...