Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine overnight into Saturday killed at least four people and wounded 20, officials ...

Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched nine missiles and 62 drones, and air defences intercepted four missiles and 50 ...

Strictly viewers have been reacting to the BBC show as hosts Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly return after exit announcement.

John Swinney has said he would be happy to meet with the family of Sheku Bayoh, after the chairman of the inquiry into his death stood down. The First Minister’s comments come as the Scottish Greens ...

Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin has apologised for any offence caused after saying “it drives me mad when I see adverts full of black people, full of Asian people”. She said her comments were “phrased ...

Reform MP Sarah Pochin has hit out at “woke” adverts “full of black people”. The Runcorn and Helsby MP said it “drives me mad” and claimed the “average white family” was no longer represented. Labour ...

Neighbours star Stefan Dennis previously announced that he would be leaving the Strictly Come Dancing series early. Here’s why.

Labour’s new deputy leader Lucy Powell has urged Sir Keir Starmer to be bolder and give a “stronger sense of our purpose”. Ms ...

Liberal Democrat peer and former Labour Treasury minister Lord Taverne has died aged 97. As Dick Taverne he was a Treasury minister as the UK prepared to move to decimal currency and championed the ...

Congratulating Ms Connolly, the Social Democrats’ Holly Cairns called the victory a “seismic moment in our history”. She said: “The momentum behind Catherine’s presidential bid was incredible, growing ...

Leaders of parties which backed the independent candidate have been congratulating her ahead of an expected decisive victory.

The Strictly Come Dancing professionals are to embody the different eras of Britney Spears’ music career as part of the show’s icons week. Their group dance, which contains nods to music videos ...