The number of babies born in Japan last year fell for a ninth straight year to a record low, according to health ministry data. The faster-than-predicted decline suggests government measures have not ...

Delaying redress for victims of the pelvic mesh “scandal” could end up costing the public purse, a Conservative former Treasury minister has warned. John Glen on Thursday called for a Commons debate ...

Russian president Vladimir Putin wants sovereignty not territory, a Conservative former leader has said, as he argued Donald Trump is making a “completely wrong judgement” if he thinks otherwise. The ...

Royal Navy tugboat and marine services crews, some of whom move nuclear submarines, are set to take strike action in March in a dispute over proposed contract changes. Unite said 300 of its members at ...

JERSEY’S swimming stars, aged 14 and under, returned to Winchester for the final meet of the Hampshire 2025 campaign last ...

Former Co-operative Bank chairman Paul Flowers – who stole nearly £100,000 from an elderly spinster to spend on drugs, holidays and gifts for himself – has been jailed for three years. Flowers, 74, ...

Some 35,840 new home loans were handed out to older borrowers in the fourth quarter of last year, marking a 28.2% annual increase, according to UK Finance. Its later life mortgage lending report, ...

Three men have been arrested for conspiracy to murder over a shooting which left a nine-year-old girl with life-changing injuries. The girl was eating dinner with her family at a restaurant in ...

The Government will clamp down on pornography which shows women being choked after a review found the content can have “devastating” real-world consequences. Videos showing the practice are rife on ...

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy says she has sought “cast-iron assurances” that Hamas did not receive any money for a BBC documentary about Gaza which featured the son of a former official of the ...

Network Rail has been fined £3.41 million over the death of a track worker. Regulator the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) said the Government-owned company was handed the punishment in a hearing at ...

Metro Bank has returned to profitability after overhauling its costs by slashing the number of staff and selling a portion of its mortgage book. The lender, which secured a multimillion-pound rescue ...