The Japanese-born writer, 70, was made a Companion of Honour for services to literature at an event at Windsor Castle on Tuesday.

Environment Minister Andrew Muir has said Northern Ireland should have its own environmental protection agency.

The Prince of Wales visited Paqueta, where there are no private cars and bicycles are the main form of transport.

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy expects the BBC to examine questions around editorial standards thoroughly, No 10 said.

Scientologists played bagpipe music on speakers all day over the course of a weekend to drown out protestors.

The move acts on one of 12 recommendations made by Baroness Louise Casey in her review of grooming gangs published in June.

Labour MP Alice Macdonald called on the Government to ‘right this wrong’ as she introduced her 10-minute rule Bill in the Commons.

A social media boss has said it would be “tyrannical overreach” to remove a video of a “horrific” stabbing which was watched by Axel Rudakubana on the morning of the Southport attack. Rudakubana, then ...

A 75-year-old man was assaulted by a stranger. The serious assault occurred between 6.30am and 7am in Haslett Avenue East, near the Three Bridges Free Church, on Friday, October 31. A 75-year-old man ...

Speaking in Downing Street, she said: “As I take my decisions on both tax and spend, I will do what is necessary to protect families from high inflation and interest rates, to protect our public ...

The author said he will decide on the character in his final standalone novel, but they will be named after the winning bidder.

Here is a full list of the latest estimates of the percentage of adults who are current smokers in each local authority area of the UK. The figures have been published by the Office for National ...