Pensions minister Torsten Bell said payments will not be universal, while Chancellor Rachel Reeves said changes will be in place for this winter.

The Queen is to star in a new crime novel alongside her favourite fictional detective. Peter James’s latest Detective Superintendent Roy Grace thriller centres on a race to stop a killer at Buckingham ...

Two men have been charged with murder over a car crash in which a four-year-old boy died. Patrick Maughan, 53 and Owen Maughan, 27, both from Hill Rise, Darenth, are due to appear at Sevenoaks ...

Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service were called at 2.48am on June 3, with reports of a fire on Gore Heath at Morden Road in Wareham. Crews from Wareham, Poole, Bere Regis, Wimborne, Hamworthy ...

Aidan O’Brien has three leading contenders in Delacroix, winner of the two best Derby trials in Ireland, The Lion In Winter, who was favourite for the race all winter and Lambourn, successful in the ...

A PERSON was taken to hospital with a leg injury following a crash involving a motorbike and a car in Poole. Emergency services were called to Commercial Road at 5.09pm on Monday, June 3. Police ...

Here is what is known about the new Covid NB.1.8.1 variant from cases in the UK, symptoms, what the World Health Organisation has said and more.

The sickness absence rate has fallen to an average of just over four days a year for every worker, according to new figures. An estimated 148.9 million working days were lost in the UK because of ...

All of the approximately 480 WH Smith stores and 5,000 staff working for the high street businesses will move under Modella Capital’s ownership ...

Torsten Bell said he thinks most people agree ‘it’s not a good idea that we have a system paying a few hundreds of pounds to millionaires’.

The Government remains “confident” it can implement its trade deal with the US in time to prevent Britain’s steel industry facing even higher tariffs, a Cabinet minister has said.

Singer Jessie J said she has been diagnosed with “early breast cancer” and plans to undergo surgery following her performance at this month’s Summertime Ball. The Price Tag singer, whose real name is ...