Local authorities with the greatest proportion of homes owned outright tend to be in coastal areas or away from cities.

The public took over a cabinet meeting of Haringey Council to thrash out controversial issues of safety on the streets and the cost-of-living ...

There were “failings” in the provision of care for former England cricketer Graham Thorpe in the months before he died, a coroner said, as he recorded a conclusion of suicide at his inquest. The ...

Phone notes made by a transgender doctor following a dispute with a nurse had been edited, a tribunal has heard. An employment tribunal was told on Friday that NHS Fife did not commission a forensic ...

The defendants, who cannot be named, boarded the bus 20 minutes later each armed with identical machetes hidden in their clothes.

Peter Okuneye, 52, was found dead after a Newham Council housing officer reported a 'bad smell' coming from his Plaistow flat, East London ...

Demand on an east London maternity unit in Romford is so high that it will soon need an extra operating theatre and may fail its next ...

The Forth Road Bridge has been closed to traffic after 10 Greenpeace activists suspended themselves from the structure in order to block a tanker. The group said it wanted to block an Ineos tanker ...

Thomas Kavanagh, the head of the Kinahan organised crime group, will have three months to pay the sum or face another 12 years in prison.

Heathrow has confirmed that the fire service investigated a fire alarm this morning in Terminal Three. It is not yet known if the fire alarm was a false alarm or not. Heathrow Airport was evacuated ...

Britain’s proscription of Palestine Action is a “disturbing misuse” of anti-terror laws, the United Nations human rights chief has said. Volker Turk has urged the UK to lift the ban, which he ...