Employment rights minister Justin Madders criticised a ‘piecemeal approach’ to designing the parental leave system over the past 134 years.

The Prime Minister insisted at a meeting of senior ministers that his team could look back with a “real sense of pride and achievement”.

Michael Ives, 47, denied he or his wife Kerry Ives, 46, inflicted a severe head injury on Ethan Ives-Griffiths.

Gary MacPherson, 58, committed the offences between 2005 and 2022 and was sentenced at the High Court in Paisley on Tuesday.

A 92-year-old man will die in prison after being convicted of the rape and murder of a widow in 1967, in what is thought to be Britain’s longest-running cold case to be solved.

Christopher Brain, 68, from Wilmslow, Cheshire, was leader of the evangelical movement the Nine O’Clock Service.

Heather Watson’s latest Wimbledon campaign ended in a marathon three-set defeat to 23rd seed Clara Tauson. The 33-year-old was among the first British players to take to the court on day two as they ...

Wimbledon organisers are confident security measures at the championships are appropriate following concerns raised by Yulia Putintseva about the behaviour of a spectator.