Energy Secretary Gillian Martin was speaking after a plan to divide the UK into regional pricing zones was rejected.

The number of people waiting more than a year to start routine hospital treatment has risen for the second month in a row.

The French president and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer also agreed a ‘new deterrent’ was needed to stop small boats crossing the English Channel.

The coastguard is responding to “multiple incidents” off the Kent coast this morning. Teams, including Border Force vessels, are currently in the English Channel. French authorities are also using ...

Former EastEnders actor and prolific theatre star Frank Barrie has died at the age of 88, his agent has confirmed. According to a statement from his agency Scott Marshall Partners, Barrie died ...

A yellow heat health alert has been extended to all regions in England, with temperatures set to reach 31C on Thursday and expected to climb as the third heatwave of the summer hits the UK.

Thousands of people were coated in colourful paints as they completed a two-and-a-half-mile route in aid of a worthy cause.

Tensions are continuing to smoulder around two loyalist bonfires in Northern Ireland which have attracted significant controversy.

Suspensions and exclusions from schools in England have risen to a record high for recent times, Government figures show. There were 954,952 suspensions in the 2023/24 academic year, compared with 786 ...

Sculptor Charlie Whinney has created a place for people to sit beside and touch a section of the much-loved tree, which was felled in 2023.

It comes as new figures show the waiting list for routine hospital treatment in England fell to its lowest in more than two years.

Disruption to Glasgow’s subways during the city’s biggest music festival has been avoided after unions struck a deal with the operator. About 100 staff working for Strathclyde Partnership for ...