The Justice Secretary has announced more emergency measures to curb prison overcrowding as she warned jails are on track to be down to “zero capacity” by November. Shabana Mahmood unveiled changes to ...

Sophie Ecclestone has been omitted from England’s first squad under new head coach Charlotte Edwards, who says the spinner is “physically not quite at 100 per cent yet” after a knee injury.

There have been calls for legislation which would mean only qualified surgeons can conduct certain procedures.

Public health officials urge farm visitors to wash hands after petting animals as more cases linked to animal feeding sessions emerge.

Mr Justice McAlinden, president of the Victims’ Payment Board, described the definition of the current scheme as “very restrictive”. He said he regrets that those who were bereaved in the Troubles are ...

A prison officers’ union has called for urgent action after attacks at two jails left prison officers injured.

The driest spring so far in more than a century is continuing, the Met Office said, as some farmers hope for “substantial” rain amid drought concerns. So far this spring, 80.6mm of rain has been ...

A dual winner and placed at Group-race level for William Haggas, the five-year-old lost his way in the second half of last season and was subsequently sold by the powerful Shadwell operation, changing ...

Lisandro Martinez and Joshua Zirkzee are ruled out of a final that a number of United’s defence are a doubt for, with Yoro joining fellow centre-backs De Ligt and Heaven on the sidelines after limping ...

Official figures are forecast to show a bounce in the first quarter of the year, before April’s tax rises and Donald Trump’s tariff announcement.