Samir Shah questioned why the BBC needed a ‘root-and-branch review of everything we do, including our very existence’ every 10 years.

Hertfordshire-based addiction charity Resolve has received almost £500,000 in funding from the National Lottery ...

Mr Miliband outlined the impact climate change would have around the world. According to an official readout of Cabinet he said “climate change is a threat to national security and growth, given ...

The Queen has withdrawn from her engagements for the rest of the week after falling unwell with a chest infection, Buckingham Palace has announced. Doctors have recommended The Queen take a short ...

Spain’s central government approved a 10.6-billion-euro (£8.9 billion) relief package for 78 communities on Tuesday that Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez compared with measures taken during the Covid-19 ...

The data is from the Government’s national child measurement programme, which covers mainstream state-maintained schools in England.

A film based on Irish language rap trio Kneecap leads the nominations for the British Independent Film Awards (Bifas), picking up 14 nods. Set in Belfast in 2019, the film is a semi-fictionalised ...

Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent, is seeking to win a fourth six-year term in the US Senate on Tuesday. The 83-year-old senator is a self-described democratic socialist who twice came close to ...

An automated system that helps train wheels grip tracks failed on a train involved in a fatal crash in mid-Wales on October 21, investigators said. Hoses fitted to the Transport for Wales (TfW) train ...

Hornby has agreed to sell off a loss-making subsidiary which makes Oxford Diecast models. Shares in the scale models group rose after it confirmed the deal, which comes as part of a strategy to boost ...

Designer glasses have been stolen from the Boots store in Potters Bar, with police launching a CCTV appeal as part of their investigation. The incident occurred shortly after 3pm last Friday (November ...

There was late heartbreak for Potters Bar as the East Hockey League returned from its first mid-season break. The men's first team were just a minute away from their first league win of the season in ...