The National Trust says 2024 was good for trees, heather and seals but bad for bees, butterflies, bats and natterjack toads.

The UK does not “make as much use of open prisons” as it could, a former Conservative justice minister has suggested. David Gauke, who is leading the Government’s sentencing review, also told the ...

The National Trust’s review of the year’s wildlife and weather sees past drought give way to wet, mild conditions in 2024.

The fund aims to help charities that redistribute food but often lack the means to collect it from farms and get it to those who need it. They could use the money to buy new equip ...

Record-breaking adventurer Preet Chandi, 36, of Derby, wants to set off in March and hopes to complete the trek in around 70 days.

Tony Blair attempted to amend a Gerry Adams statement on IRA disarmament, newly unsealed documents show. On April 27 2003, then-Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams gave a lengthy address on the ...

NHS Blood and Transplant said the organs were provided by 11 donors after death and included a heart, lungs, kidneys, livers, pancreas and bowel.

A man in his 30s has given his stem cells twice in the space of a decade to help save the lives of two people, becoming one of just 0.7% of donors to do so. Brad Green, from Sheffield, was inspired to ...

Tony Blair established the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, following campaigns from the victims of the 1972 shootings on the streets of Londonderry.

On average, non-pensioners in the bottom half of the income distribution will see their real living standards rise very slightly – by 0.2%, the equivalent of £28, between 2024-25 and 2025-26 – while ...

BUSINESSES were forced to shut and families had to eat their dinner by candlelight after a major power cut hit Weymouth town centre on Christmas Day.

Ruben Amorim says misfiring Manchester United must find a way to “survive” a “tough moment” that he expects to continue well beyond the bruising Boxing Day defeat at Vitor Pereira’s Wolves.