The National Trust is adding a splash of purple to Shropshire’s “blue remembered hills” as it plants thousands of violets to ...

Hungary and China have signed a number of new agreements to deepen their economic and cultural co-operation during a visit to ...

The Independent runs with a piece on Tory politics as fears rise that more Conservatives could cross the floor to join Labour. INDEPENDENT: More Tory MPs want to ...

Russia is pressing hard in parts of eastern Ukraine in an effort to drive deeper into the Donetsk region, which it partly ...

British author and journalist Dame Shirley Conran has died aged 91. Her son, the designer Jasper Conran, wrote on Instagram on Thursday: “Shirl girl has flown away, a lark ascending.” ...

Fire chiefs and recycling campaigners have warned that fires caused by discarded batteries in electricals are on the rise, causing damage and spikes in air pollution levels. According to a study by ...

A former Conservative MP caught up in a sting by The Times in a gambling lobby scandal has had a complaint to the press regulator about the newspaper rejected. Scott Benton, who had represented ...

A hearing of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) in London on Wednesday heard claims that police in Northern Ireland undertook six-monthly trawls of the phone data of “troublemaker” journalists to ...

A wave of dangerous storms has begun washing over southern parts of the US, a day after severe weather with damaging ...

Donald Trump’s defence lawyers have grilled Stormy Daniels on the transaction at the centre of the former president’s hush ...

The first aid ship bound for a US-built floating pier to be installed in Gaza has departed. However, it is unclear when the ...

The costs behind a system to help people to see all their pensions together online have jumped by £54 million, with no date yet set for when it will be made available to the public, a spending ...