By Lindsay Ash SOMEONE once said that “teachers are well overpaid as educators and massively underpaid as child carers”, and ...

The race for Champions League qualification has an intriguing added dimension this season with the Premier League having been granted a fifth place. With Arsenal having reached the last four in Europe ...

A watchdog report into the Kingsmill Massacre has identified a series of failings in the original police investigation of the IRA atrocity, including a “wholly insufficient” deployment of resources to ...

A new study will give elderly people slush to drink to see if it can help stave off heat-related illnesses like heatstroke. Experts from the University of Brighton will explore if the “very simple ...

A former police sergeant has appeared in court charged with striking and injuring a man during an arrest. The ex-officer, who can now be named as Paul Street following submissions from the PA news ...

Two men went on a “moronic mission” to fell the famous Sycamore Gap tree in an act of “mindless vandalism” which they filmed on a phone, a jury has been told. Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers used a ...

Mike Peters, frontman of Welsh band The Alarm, has died from blood cancer aged 66. The rock star, who was forced to cancel a US tour last year after being diagnosed with fast-growing lymphoma, had ...

Cabinet ministers have continued talks with the EU’s trade commissioner amid leaks of a mooted UK-EU agreement on “free and open trade” in the face of Donald Trump’s tariffs. Business Secretary ...

The Duchess of Sussex has spoken of her “fear of failure” and said she was given business advice by Oprah Winfrey, amid growing controversy over use of her HRH style. Meghan, in her latest podcast, ...

Green MSP Maggie Chapman has survived a vote to oust her as deputy convener of a Holyrood committee, following her controversial comments about the Supreme Court gender ruling. MSPs on Holyrood’s ...

Human rights laws could still be an obstacle to removing foreign sex offenders from the UK, the Home Secretary said, as she suggested changes could be needed to the way the rules are interpreted.

Sir Richard Branson said it “feels really special” as he officially opened Virgin’s first hotel in London. The 74-year-old founder of the Virgin Group drove a giant red suitcase to the new location at ...