The UK’s gender pay gap has fallen by more than a quarter over the last decade, while the share of workers in low-paid jobs has hit a record low, official figures show.

The top tier of men’s events will expand to 10 tournaments, with the Saudi Arabia Masters likely to be in February.

Jamie Snowden hailed Laurens Bay’s “perfect start” to chasing and he could make an immediate step up in class next time out. The six-year-old landed the valuable EBF Final at Sandown on his last ...

The bereaved families described the start of the trial in September after a decades-long campaign as a momentous day.

Soft Cell star Dave Ball has been praised as a “wonderfully brilliant musical genius” by his bandmate Marc Almond, following his death aged 66.

Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman made history as primetime television’s first female presenting duo when they paired up to co-host Strictly Come Dancing in 2014. Over the next 11 years, the two saw the ...

The head teacher of the Southport attacker’s former school has told a public inquiry she had a “visceral sense of dread” that he would do something. Joanne Hodson, head of The Acorns School in ...

A Metropolitan Police officer who worked at Charing Cross police station has been sacked after he was secretly filmed making “floridly racist” comments and “glorifying the use of inappropriate force”.

Deng Chol Majek, who is from Sudan, was seen dancing on a car park after he is alleged to have stabbed Rhiannon Whyte and left her for dead.

The food minister has faced calls to explain the “ocean-going madness” of spending less than 8% of a new fishing fund on Scotland. Orkney and Shetland MP Alistair Carmichael pressed Dame Angela Eagle ...

Irish police have appealed to people, in particular young males, not to engage in public disorder after two days of riots near a hotel housing asylum seekers. An Garda Siochana said that public ...

Christmas Island National Park acting manager Alexia Jankowski said on Thursday there were up to 200 million of the endemic ...