Britons survived sweltering temperatures during the days of empire, a Tory former minister has said as he cautioned against taking the threat of extreme heat “overseriously”.

May Keith, a resident at Greenan Manor Care Home, celebrated an extraordinary milestone recently – her 100th birthday. Ayr born and bred, May was born in a nursing home on Prestwick Road in May 1925.

South Ayrshire Council will go through two temporary chief executives before a permanent figure is chosen to lead the local authority.

Champion jockey Oisin Murphy has been charged with drink driving after a car left a West Berkshire road and crashed into a tree.

Since Donald Trump’s tariff announcements in April, the UK has reached new agreements with the US, India and the EU.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is in talks with Labour rebels over concessions to save the Government’s welfare reform package. The talks ahead of Tuesday’s Commons showdown come after 126 Labour MPs ...

A 15-year-old girl was strip searched by officers in Hackney, east London, in December 2020, after being wrongly accused of carrying cannabis.

Reanne Coulson, 34, has been missing from Coventry since May 21 and her family have pleaded for information about her whereabouts.

A resident described the moment a terraced house exploded overnight as “like a nuclear bomb going off”. Two people have been seriously injured in the blast in Spring Hall Grove, Halifax, West ...

Reanne Coulson, 34, has been missing from Coventry since May 21 and her family have pleaded for information about her whereabouts.

Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey has cautioned over growing evidence that employment tax hikes are hitting pay and jobs rather than leading to price hikes, but said there is greater “uncertainty ...

First Minister John Swinney has said it would be “reasonable” for a former principal of the cash-strapped University of Dundee to return a £150,000 payment he received when he stepped down.