An emotional MSP has revealed how how her mother opted to starve herself to “hasten her inevitable death” after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Elena Whitham told how her mother Irene ...

THE chief executive of the National Trust for Jersey has thanked Islanders who supported plans to create a seabird sanctuary at Plémont – after the project gained approval from the Planning Committee.

Sean “Diddy” Combs’s former girlfriend, R&B singer Cassie, has told his-sex trafficking trial she was abused and sexually exploited by him for years, a day after prosecutors showed jurors video of the ...

A terrified widower died in a house fire started by two teenagers who let off a firework inside his home before running away laughing, a court heard. In the years leading up to the attack, Robert ...

A British man jailed for 10 years in Saudi Arabia, reportedly over a tweet he wrote seven years ago, has done nothing wrong and is being failed by the UK, his family have said. Ahmed al-Doush, 41, a ...

The Government has said it will not reintroduce freedom of movement, the customs union or single market with the European Union, despite pursuing a closer relationship with the body nearly a decade ...

The First Minister of Wales has said she would not use “divisive language” when asked if she supported the Prime Minister’s comments on migration. Baroness Eluned Morgan, the Labour leader of the ...

The death of a man who was struck a tram in Edinburgh in 2018 could have been avoided if reasonable precautions had been taken by the tram operator, a Sheriff has ruled. Bus driver Carlos Hernan ...

Healthcare staff are being left to deal with the “human cost” of abuse of opioids, some of which are more potent than heroin, nurses have warned. Drugs such as nitazenes and fentanyl carry a higher ...

The prosecution case against Peter Sullivan hinged on a combination of now-discredited bite mark and circumstantial evidence. Then aged 29, he had been drinking at a pub 10 minutes away from where ...

A Labour MP is being investigated by Parliament’s expenses watchdog over his spending. Tahir Ali, 53, faces a probe relating to “office costs, travel and accommodation,” the Independent Parliament ...

Millions of households are being warned of the risk of water restrictions, as parts of the country experience the driest start to the year for nearly a century. The Environment Agency has warned of a ...