Farm and nature leaders made the plea as figures show swathes of the UK have had the most days with no or little rain on ...

A professional footballer has admitted to plotting to smuggle £600,000 worth of drugs through Stansted Airport. Jay Emmanuel-Thomas, 34, arrived at the Essex airport from Thailand on September 2, ...

A security guard at Heaven nightclub is accused of raping a 19-year-old woman in his car and taking her virginity, a court has heard. The complainant, who cannot be identified, had been denied entry ...

Essex Police confirmed a second arrest was made following investigations of threatening hoax calls to two schools in Colchester and one in Clacton. A 12-year-old boy, from Colchester, was arrested on ...

Footballer Jay Emmanuel-Thomas has pleaded guilty to a cannabis importation charge over an attempt to smuggle £600,000 of the drug through Stansted Airport from Thailand. The 34-year-old striker was ...

A “masterful” painting by Scottish Colourist Samuel John Peploe which once hung in his patron’s drawing room has sold for more than £381,000 at auction. Roses In A Green Jug went under the hammer in ...

Martin Lewis has voiced his support for potential changes which could see more pensioners given Winter Fuel Payments.

The Tory leader said deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner is ‘on manoeuvres’ and asked how MPs could ever trust Sir Keir after a U-turn on ...

Teenager Jay Slater who disappeared in Tenerife last summer sparking a major manhunt died from a head injury, a coroner’s court heard.

Lineker has apologised ‘unreservedly’ for the ‘hurt and upset caused’ after he shared a social media post about Zionism.

Sir Keir Starmer told MPs he wanted more pensioners to be eligible for the payment after Labour’s decision to means-test it after coming ...

Gerry Adams was ‘reputed to have become a member of the Army Council of the IRA’, a former attorney general has told his libel trial against ...