The UK’s asylum system now costs £5 billion – the highest level of spending on record and up by more than a third in a year. Home Office spending on asylum rose by £1.43 billion, up 36% from £3.95 ...

The Equality and Human Rights Commission said Parliament needs adequate time to scrutinise the proposed legislation.

The tie-up, announced in May, will create a banking giant with millions of customers and about £89 billion worth of assets.

Coventry have announced Frank Lampard as their new head coach on a two-and-a-half-year contract. The 46-year-old will take charge of the Sky Blues for the first time this Saturday when his new side ...

Just 42,500 applications have been approved since July, when the Government said almost 900,000 households were missing out on the benefit.

Seven people have died in a landslide triggered by torrential rains in Indonesia’s Sumatra island, officials said, adding to the death toll from landslides in the region this week.

Officers at Essex Police looked into a series of incidents between October 2023 and October 2024 in the city, which targeted Co-op stores in ...

“While remaining high by historic standards, net migration is now beginning to fall and is provisionally down 20% in the 12 months to June 2024. Over that period we have seen a fall in immigration, ...

Tesco is selling Heroes, Roses, Quality Street and Celebrations tubs for £3.95 for a limited time but you need to be a Clubcard member.

A police officer who shocked a 95-yer-old nursing home resident with a Taser has been found guilty of manslaughter in an Australian court. A jury found Kristian James Samuel White guilty in the trial ...

Decisions about assisted dying should be made on a “secular basis”, a Government minister said ahead of MPs voting on the issue on Friday. Home Office minister Seema Malhotra acknowledged that “people ...

A man has been jailed for almost two years following a series of thefts in Colchester. Daniel Archer, 38, has been charged with 15 thefts or attempted thefts from shops and breached an existing ...