In a letter to MPs, Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall said personal independence payments would be protected.

The alert, which covers most of southern England, starts at midday on Friday and will last until 6pm on Tuesday.

Sir Keir Starmer is understood to have offered concessions on his controversial welfare reforms in a Government climbdown ...

Justin Welby resigned as archbishop of Canterbury last year in the wake of a review of sexual abuse committed by a Christian ...

Shrewsbury Town have taken a cheeky swipe at Gillingham after unveiling the signing of defender Will Boyle.

Sir Chris Hoy and his wife Lady Sarra Hoy have received the Freedom of the City of London. They have been recognised for ...

A care home where staff intentionally triggered patients into distress and referred to them by nicknames has been placed into special measures.

A double-decker bus carrying sixth-form college students has crashed off a road and ended up in a river, leaving three people ...

An amber heat-health alert covering Kent has been issued as temperatures are set to soar again. The north of the county will ...

Ben Starr, 35, inflicted a single fatal blow to his brother Lee at a motocross event in Swindon in August last year.

It comes as the Department of Health and Social Care confirmed 85 new mental health emergency departments will be built across England.

First Minister John Swinney has said it would be “reasonable” for a former principal of the cash-strapped University of ...