Thatched properties in Church Street were destroyed by a fire in 1927. Photos from Sidmouth Museum (Image: Archant) The shops and cottages were devastated, nearly 30 people were left homeless and five ...

The swashbuckling image of smugglers playing cat and mouse with the authorities has more in common with Hollywood than with reality, write ...

Dougie Shelley, who joined the Royal Navy aged 17, served as a seaman gunner and said earlier this year: ‘There’s not many of us left.’ ...

The Prime Minister, France’s Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Friedrich Merz will host the coalition of the willing on Sunday afternoon.

Rising levels of poverty ‘would make Charles Dickens furious’, Lord Kinnock said in an interview with the Sunday Mirror.

The Deputy Prime Minister demanded Reform UK explain how it would keep young women safe after it vowed to repeal online safety rules.

Letby is serving 15 whole-life orders after murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others between June 2015 and June 2016.

The patient was admitted to Pisa University Hospital late on Wednesday and died on Friday. She was removed from Gaza as part of a humanitarian mission and arrived with a “with a very complex, ...

The move by West Virginia comes as hundreds of District of Columbia National Guard were activated this week to back up local law enforcement.

Israel announced on Saturday that it is preparing to move Palestinians from combat zones to southern Gaza as plans move ahead for a military offensive in some of the territory’s most populated areas.

Some shoplifters “feel they can rob shops with impunity”, a policing chief has said. Katy Bourne, the national lead for shoplifting at the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, said more ...

The 50-square-metre piece on Bridlington beach in East Yorkshire, created by landscape artists from Sand In Your Eye and the charity’s youth ambassadors, is a portrait of a child with the words “Wish ...