This year’s Commonwealth Day theme is Together We Thrive, which celebrates the “enduring spirit of the Commonwealth family”.

A man has been arrested over the murder of a 40-year-old woman who was shot dead in a South Wales town. The woman died on Sunday evening in Talbot Green which is around 15 miles west of Cardiff. She ...

People living near power infrastructure could get hundreds of pounds off their bills a year, it has been reported, as part of an overhaul of planning rules. Ministers are also looking to slash the ...

A Labour MP has warned ministers against “draconian cuts” ahead of expected changes to the welfare system. Rachael Maskell suggested she had detected “deep, deep concern” from colleagues in the ...

A 29-year-old man has been charged after climbing onto the clock tower of Big Ben, Metropolitan Police said. Daniel Day, of Palmerston Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, has been charged with ...

Shops, restaurants and pubs across England are facing an extra £1 billion in taxes when a discount is cut next month, adding to a “tsunami” of rising costs hurtling toward the sector, according to new ...

A former Conservative minister has been confirmed as the first head of a new Government body designed to being new technologies to market faster. Lord David Willetts has been confirmed as the first ...

Scattered showers are expected in northern and eastern parts, with temperatures in the North reaching between 6C and 8C.

A new BBC sitcom starring Dawn French titled Can You Keep A Secret? has begun filming in the West Country. A first-look image shows comedian and actress French, 67, with her co-stars Mark Heap, known ...

A delivery driver inspired by “Hardest Geezer” Russ Cook has quit his job to run the length of the UK in a month. After ...

Automatic sentence reductions for guilty pleas should be less “generous” when there is “no question of guilt”, a Conservative MP has said, following calls from the family of a crash victim. Offenders ...

The National Pharmacy Association said pharmacies frequently have to turn away distressed, frustrated and sometimes angry patients.