The Conservatives have called for some prison officers to have access to firearms to counter “out of control” Islamist gangs and violent prisoners. Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick said ...

The Government has pledged £1.5 billion as part of the strategic defence review into at least six munitions and energetics factories.

An innovative treatment that reprogrammes immune cells to recognise and kill cancer has been shown to be effective on patients with certain tumours in a pioneering trial. CAR T-cell therapy is usually ...

France has agreed to change its rules so police can prevent people in the water from getting on to boats, but this has not yet come into effect.

Piper, 42, starred as the companion to the ninth Doctor in 2005, playing Rose Tyler alongside Christopher Eccleston’s Time Lord.

Hamas is seeking amendments to the latest US ceasefire proposal for Gaza, a senior official with the group has said, but US envoy Steve Witkoff called the response “totally unacceptable”.

Piper, 42, starred as the companion to the ninth Doctor in 2005, playing Rose Tyler alongside Christopher Eccleston’s Time Lord.

Tributes have been paid to the former head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service Sir Kenneth Bloomfield, who has died at the age of 94. Health Minister Mike Nesbitt described Sir Kenneth as a “great ...

Provisional figures from the Met Office show 630 hours of sunshine were clocked up across the country between March 1 and May 27.

The UK struck a deal with Washington for import taxes on its steel to be removed weeks ago, but its implementation has not been finalised.

Hamas has responded to the latest US ceasefire proposal for Gaza while seeking amendments to it. A senior Hamas official told the Associated Press: “There some notes and amendments to some points, ...

Nigel Farage has been accused of “racism and hatred” by John Swinney in the last weekend of campaigning before polls open in the Hamilton by-election. The Scottish First Minster hit out at the Reform ...