People with anxiety and milder depression face losing entitlement to disability benefit payments as Rishi Sunak set out a “moral mission” to reform welfare. The prime minister said the recent ...

Older homeowners who downsize should be exempt from paying stamp duty while those who own a second home should be financially penalised in an overhaul to tackle Britain’s housing crisis, a study ...

Hotels in Europe have been forced to close whole floors and restaurants curtail their hours because of chronic staff shortages in hospitality. Holidaymakers are being warned that hotels, bars ...

The easiest thing for Trent Alexander-Arnold to do would have been to disappear and forget about everything. Liverpool’s limp Champions League exit against Real Madrid two weeks ago was still ...

Newcastle United fans have been angered by an alcohol ban placed on trains taking them home after the Carabao Cup final on Sunday, given that Manchester United fans are not subject to such measures.

On Sunday Liz Truss invited Jeremy Hunt, her new chancellor, to Chequers. They had a meeting to work through their economic plans before enjoying lunch together with their families. The product of ...

Ryan Giggs has sold the £1.7 million home where he allegedly headbutted his ex-girlfriend. A source said Giggs, 48, got “rid of” the luxury five-bedroom, Tudor-style mansion “he loved” in ...

Russia has used white phosphorus munitions against the city of Kramatorsk, a Ukrainian official claimed last night, after the US warned that the Kremlin was considering chemical and biological ...

A listed maternity brand, whose customers have included the Duchess of Cambridge, lost two thirds of its stock market value yesterday after issuing a profit warning. Seraphine said that weaker ...

Scotland is the coronavirus capital of the UK with around twice as many cases per head as the other UK nations and regions. Scottish councils take up 17 of the places in the top 20 UK coronavirus ...

At least 22 Covid-19 patients on ventilators in an Indian hospital died after a large tank supplying oxygen to the wards suddenly ruptured cutting off the flow. The main storage cylinder outside ...

The two Russians accused of carrying out the 2018 Salisbury poisonings are suspected of a deadly Czech bombing as part of operations across Europe. The explosion in 2014 that killed two factory ...