A comedian who has appeared on a number of BBC shows has sparked outrage for posting a threat on social media to kill a female “Zionist” comedian. Dane Baptiste, 42, has apologised for posting the ...

Craig Fuller is a rural property buying agent, so when plans recently revealed that his country home could be surrounded on all sides by solar panels as part of proposed 2,000-acre solar park, he knew ...

People with anxiety and milder depression face losing entitlement to disability benefit payments as Rishi Sunak set out a “moral mission” to reform welfare. The prime minister said the recent rises in ...

Every constituency in Britain saw a rise in sickness benefit claims last year, with Conservative areas experiencing some of the biggest increases. Affluent southern areas have seen the numbers of ...

Challenge yourself with today’s puzzles. Are there two more soulful voices anywhere on the planet? At a time when technology plays tricks on listeners and makes very ordinary singers sound, well, ...

The pink apple blossom is out in the orchards of Sandford, north Somerset, where Martin Thatcher’s family have made cider for four generations. The birds are in full voice and roe deer have been seen.

At the glitzy London Hilton hotel on Park Lane four years ago the Newsnight team was toasting its success. They had just picked up four RTS Journalism Awards for the programme’s landmark interview ...

Drivers overwhelmingly prefer cars with physical buttons and switches over distracting touchscreen controls, a study has found. Almost 90 per cent of motorists said they would rather drive a car with ...

American prosecutors are said to be considering downgrading charges against Julian Assange in a move that could end a 14-year-old legal battle and may see him freed from HMP Belmarsh. Assange, 52, was ...

It is almost as though Ravi Shastri is willing the weather gods to do their worst, to bring monsoons and therefore moisture and greenness to the Test pitches for the five-match Test series against ...

When Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, met President Macron of France for talks on the future of Europe’s security, the stakes were high. The supply of American armaments to Ukraine has been all but ...

Jeremy Hunt put tax cuts for workers and parents at the heart of his pre-­election budget as he ­declared that Britain’s economy was “turning the corner” and laid out his goal to abolish national ...