This has led to mounting pressure over how to balance the books – by raising taxes or cutting spending – amid disappointing growth figures and higher-than-expected borrowing. “This is not a Budget. We ...

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has ordered the National Energy System Operator to “urgently investigate” the power outage caused by a substation fire, and is working with Ofgem and using powers under ...

The funding aims to train up to 60,000 engineers, bricklayers, electricians and carpenters by 2029 to tackle skills shortages.

Her comments reveal the Tories’ ‘disdainful thinking’, the Lib Dem leader will say in a speech to his party’s spring conference.

Moves by the Government to challenge a ruling that SAS soldiers were not justified in killing four IRA members in a 1992 ambush are “disgraceful”, according to Sinn Fein. Last month, coroner Mr ...

The civil service will be told to slash more than £2 billion a year from its budget by the end of the decade as part of the Government’s spending review. The Cabinet Office will tell departments to ...

The technology company said Facebook and Instagram were ‘free for British consumers because of personalised advertising’.

Heavy rain, hail and thunder are forecast to hit the UK days after the warmest spring equinox in more than 50 years. There was heavy rain in some places on Saturday afternoon and National Highways ...

The former first minister was told on Thursday that she had been cleared along with former party treasurer Colin Beattie.

On Saturday night, Israel again struck Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. A strike hit a garage in the coastal city of Tyre, the ...

Three people have been killed and 15 injured after an altercation broke out at a park in the desert city of Las Cruces, New Mexico, police said. Officers and fire crews arrived at just after 10pm on ...

The army’s gain came as a pro-democracy activist group said RSF fighters had killed at least 45 people in a city in the western region of Darfur.