Tens of thousands of local government workers are considering strike action over a pay dispute, a union has announced. More than 70,000 local government workers, represented by Unison, are being ...

Londoners have shared their 'disgust' and concerns after a picture of an overflowing park bin went viral. The bin in Hackney's London Fields is full, seeing mountains of rubbish pile up around it and ...

British Horseracing Authority starter Robbie Supple has defended existing procedures after a series of unsatisfactory starts at the Cheltenham Festival. Tuesday’s Ultima Handicap Chase required three ...

Belgian federal prosecutors on Thursday announced the arrests of several people in a corruption probe linked to the European Parliament and the Chinese company Huawei, which is suspected of bribing EU ...

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Reform UK are “counting their chickens” ahead of the election in Scotland next year, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has said. The Nigel Farage-led party has been surging in the polls in ...

Police have been granted more time to question the captain of a container ship which crashed into a US oil tanker in the North Sea. The 59-year-old Russian captain of Solong, which struck US tanker ...

Ben Earl has revealed that speed will be at the heart of England’s quest to win the Guinness Six Nations title on ‘Super Saturday’. Head coach Steve Borthwick has named three specialist openside ...

SPS also committed to pilot ‘signs of life’ suicide prevention/monitoring technology in Polmont, with a report due by January 17 2026.

Two vessels involved in a North Sea collision that triggered a huge explosion “appear to be relatively stable” and the environmental impact “mercifully small”, a transport minister has said. And while ...

Badminton player Kirsty Gilmour has called for a rule change after she was penalised for leaving the court to deal with her period at the YONEX All England Open. The Bellshill shuttler remonstrated ...

Bob Olinger maintained his flawless Cheltenham Festival record when storming up the hill to take the Paddy Power Stayers’ Hurdle under Rachael Blackmore. Henry de Bromhead’s 10-year-old was seemingly ...