Israel, meanwhile, carried out strikes on Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor, its latest attack on the country’s sprawling ...

The Prime Minister pushed for de-escalation amid signs that the US president could join Israel’s military action against Iran.

Victims of a Chinese PhD student who drugged and raped 10 women in London and China have told of being “haunted” by his attacks on them. Zhenhao Zou, 28, kept a trophy box of women’s belongings and ...

Global shares retreated on Thursday as worries persisted about conflict in the Middle East. On the seventh day of a conflict that began with a surprise wave of Israeli airstrikes targeting military ...

The heatwave is piling more pressure on farmers who were already struggling to produce food in the face of the very dry conditions. Much of the country is sweltering in a heatwave, with temperatures ...

The hottest June temperature recorded in the UK is 35.6C, which was reached in Mayflower Park in Southampton on June 28 1976. The same temperature was also measured in Camden Square in north London on ...

Average savings rates have been on a downward path in recent weeks, but some providers have unveiled new products.

Tributes have been paid to Slane Castle’s Lord Henry Mount Charles, who has died aged 74. He died late on Wednesday after “a long and valiant” battle with cancer, his family said. Since 1981, the ...

Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones said £6 billion a year would go to repairing hospitals and £3 billion to schools and colleges.

A bit-part actor who crashed a car, with his son inside, into a garage in Staindrop after he had been boozing landed himself in court.

The Government has faced backlash from some Labour MPs over the ‘damaging disability benefit cuts’, which it said could save up to £5 billion ...

FREE bandstand sessions will continue this weekend in the centre of town. Hexham Bandstand Sessions will take place every Sunday in the coming weeks from noon until 2pm, with the exception of July 20, ...