Thames Water has agreed to delay a possible appeal over how much it can charge for customer bills while talks over a refinancing deal with potential buyers take place. The UK’s biggest water firm said ...

Fiona Goddard and Ellie-Ann Reynolds resigned from the inquiry’s victims and survivors liaison panel on Monday and criticised the Home Office.

The number of men in the UK living to a very old age is increasing faster than the rate for women, helping to push the elderly population to a new record high, figures show. Some 210,520 males were ...

Communities will welcome a focus on “actual hate crime”, the justice minister said after Britain’s biggest force indicated it would stop policing “toxic culture war debates”. Sarah Sackman described ...

Pizza Hut will also shut 11 delivery locations after the firm running its UK restaurants entered administration.

One of the former owners of Amberley Care Home has taken the stand, denying any involvement in the alleged crime.

West Yorkshire Police said two more men from the prison had been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder.

Boris Johnson has denied there was a failure to plan for Covid school closures at the start of the pandemic, saying it would be “surprising” if there had been no planning.

Rishi Sunak has said he hopes to have “a weekly conversation with readers” of The Sunday Times as he joins the newspaper as a columnist. The former Conservative prime minister and serving MP for ...

Russia occupies about one fifth of Ukraine but carving up their country in return for peace is unacceptable to Kyiv officials.

The Attorney General and Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister have been asked to give evidence to a parliamentary inquiry next Tuesday.

Pressure is mounting on Prince Andrew to give up his 30-bedroom mansion after it emerged he has paid a “peppercorn rent” on the property for more than 20 years. Senior Tory Robert Jenrick said it was ...