A national rollout covering 20 prisons will pilot the use of medication to suppress the sex drive of sex offenders, the Justice Secretary has confirmed. The Government is exploring whether to enforce ...

The Chagos Islands deal could still be signed on Thursday after an overnight injunction was granted temporarily preventing the plans, the High Court has been told. The deal, which would see Britain ...

Workers in central London are coming into the office midweek just as much as before the pandemic, according to one of the city’s biggest landlords. British Land said on Thursday that midweek occupancy ...

MINISTERS embroiled in an ongoing public row over inter-island ferry services have been urged by Jersey and Guernsey’s Chief Ministers to resolve their differences in private. Speaking at a Chamber of ...

The difference between the number of people moving to the UK and leaving the country is estimated to have halved, in the biggest fall in net migration since the pandemic. The figure stood at an ...

Exploring chemical castration for sex offenders is “worthwhile” as a way to reduce reoffending, the head of the independent sentencing review has said. The review led by former justice secretary David ...

A High Court judge has temporarily blocked the Government from concluding its deal on the Chagos Islands hours before it was expected to be signed off. Downing Street insisted the deal, which would ...

Telecoms giant BT has said it expects earnings to remain largely flat over the year ahead as it presses ahead with a major cost-cutting overhaul and plans to refocus on its UK business. The group ...

Foreign Secretary David Lammy has condemned the “appalling” killing of two Israeli embassy staff members in Washington DC. The victims, a man and a woman, were leaving an event at the Capital Jewish ...

Ireland is examining a report that a flight carrying deportees from the US to Africa, against a judge’s order, stopped at an Irish airport. The New York Times reported that a plane carrying eight ...

Police have issued a fresh appeal for information around the murder of an 18-year-old in Co Tyrone more than 50 years ago. The body of Marian Beattie was found at the bottom of a quarry. She had been ...

International Criminal Court prosecutors have urged judges to reject a request by Israel to scrap arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister while the court ...