Somerset Council's leader, Cllr Bill Revans, has responded to a statement issued by the Labour government on the financial situation facing ...

Pensioners face having to fill in a 243-question application to claim pension credit, which will unlock winter fuel payments of up to £300.

The third of 62 inquests has heard a breast cancer patient was not told Paterson was under investigation when she was treated in 2007.

Home workers save an average of 56 minutes a day from not commuting, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). This frees time for them to get 24 more minutes of “sleep and rest” and 15 ...

Beth Mead says Arsenal interim boss Renee Slegers is “a breath of fresh air” ahead of the Champions League clash with Juventus on Tuesday. Slegers, who was on Arsenal’s books as a teenager before ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has pledged to take tougher measures against the misuse of political funds after he ...

A joke and magic shop which claims to be the oldest in the world has closed after 138 years. Tam Shepherds Trick Shop has been a Glasgow institution since 1886. The shop drew in generations of ...

The study found that children with asthma performed worse in memory tasks than children without the lung condition. According to the researchers, memory deficits may have longer-term consequences, and ...

Experts say they now know even less about a typical day on Uranus, and need a second spacecraft to visit the planet in order to find out more.

Toxic smog has shrouded Pakistan’s cultural capital of Lahore and 17 other districts in Punjab since last month. Health officials say more than 40,000 people have been treated for respiratory ailments ...

The Kremlin has rejected reports that President Vladimir Putin spoke last week with President-elect Donald Trump about the war in Ukraine. A spokesman for Mr Trump refused to comment on what he called ...

Russian drones hammered the southern city of Mykolaiv, killing five people and injuring a 45-year-old woman, local authorities said. Around two dozen people sought psychological help following the ...