Labour has pledged to renationalise the railways if elected, with the shadow transport secretary saying that “today’s broken model simply doesn’t work”. A Labour government would expect to transfer ...

Three teenagers who killed a promising young rapper at a 16th birthday party have been detained, as a judge warned of the ...

Greg Dewhurst, from the Met Office, said there would be ‘plenty of sunshine around, but it will become cloudier the further north you are’.

Multiple Oxfordshire bus services to Heathrow airport have been cancelled after disruptions. The Oxford Bus Company said on X (formerly Twitter) that the 15:05 service, as well as the 11:50 service ...

Second-placed Jamie Driscoll had quit Labour after he was barred from standing as the party’s candidate in the North East.

Presumptive SNP leader and first minister John Swinney has been urged by the Scottish Conservatives to drop his party’s push for independence and refuse to work with the Greens. In a letter likely to ...

Richard Holden admitted it had been a disappointing night for his party, but insisted the widespread losses are ‘typical for a Government ...

The Independent Oxford Alliance Party (IOA), which formed in November, gained four seats in Rose Hill & Iffley, Littlemore, Cowley and Lye Valley wards as votes were announced for the Oxford City ...

Bambie Thug has promised that they will “stand out” following their fellow Irish entrants for the Eurovision Song Contest failing to make the final of the competition in the last four attempts.

The government has said it will redraft its Carbon Budget Delivery Plan within 12 months following the court’s decision.

Rishi Sunak may yet quell a Tory rebellion amid a consolation win in the Tees Valley and hopes for the West Midlands mayoral contest, despite suffering a drubbing in the first day of local election ...

The Tories held Broxbourne while Labour held Sunderland, but elsewhere in the north-east they lost wards to independents in South Tyneside – where there have been problems with bin collections – and ...