Downing Street has rejected characterisations of its plans to reform the Civil Service as “taking a chainsaw to the system”.

A 13-year-old girl has appeared in court charged with murder and arson after the body of a woman was found in a house in Northamptonshire. The teenager, who appeared in the dock clutching a teddy bear ...

Four men have been convicted of attempting to smuggle £100 million of cocaine on a fishing boat off the coast of Cornwall. Michael Kelly, 45, from Portway, Manchester, and Jake Marchant, 27, of no ...

Sir Keir Starmer has faced a backlash over rumoured welfare cuts, with one Labour MP pleading with the Prime Minister to make the “moral” choice. Richard Burgon told the Commons disabled people are ...

The Queen joined spectators at the Cheltenham Festival for a day of racing at the premier meet in the country for jump jockeys. Snow had greeted early risers at the famous racecourse but Camilla ...

A partial lunar eclipse will take place in the UK just before dawn on Friday. The moon will darken as it moves into Earth’s shadow and will eventually turn red, earning its “blood moon” nickname. In a ...

IN its 100 glorious years, the Liverpool Empire has seen it all - from Laurel and Hardy to Frank Sinatra and The Beatles. It is also the venue where many Merseysiders enjoyed their first ballet, opera ...

Aristocrat Constance Marten posed as a freelance journalist called Caroline as she concealed her tragic newborn baby, a court has heard. Marten, 37, and her partner Mark Gordon, 50, are on trial at ...

Actor Noel Clarke has told the High Court it is “not my business” to ensure a producer who worked for him was paid enough to make ends meet, adding “none of us were making money”. The 49-year-old is ...

Somali security forces have ended a 24-hour siege at a hotel in the central city of Beledwyne, leaving an unknown number of people dead, including all the al-Shabab militants who launched the attack, ...

British manufacturers have said Donald Trump’s fresh trade tariffs on metals will create “severe problems” and are a “big concern”. Liam Bates, president of long products at Marcegaglia, a steel maker ...

Nicola Sturgeon can be proud of “changing the lives of people in Scotland for the better”, Scotland’s First Minister has said after she announced she will stand down at the next Holyrood election.