The South Basildon and East Thurrock MP said he had ‘decided to continue my parliamentary career as an independent MP’.

Sam Fender has beaten Taylor Swift to see his People Watching album crowned the best-selling vinyl record of 2025 so far.

Flights scheduled at Marseille Airport have been suspended after a wildfire raged close to the southern French port city, local authorities said. The prefecture urged people in the affected areas to ...

A public inquiry into the murders of three girls at a Southport dance class will identify changes that urgently need to be made to protect the most vulnerable from other “horrors”, the chairman has ...

A Scottish postmaster who was wrongly convicted under the Horizon scandal says Fujitsu is getting away “scot-free” from its role in the affair. Rab Thomson welcomed the first tranche of Sir Wyn ...

The black-tailed skimmer dragonfly was spotted by volunteers at the Bog Meadows Nature Reserve in west Belfast.

Hope of finding survivors of the catastrophic flooding in Texas dimmed a day after the death toll surpassed 100, and crews kept up the search for people missing in the aftermath. The search efforts ...

Pupils from Preston Lodge High School in Prestonpans enjoyed a tour during a trip to London, hosted by Douglas Alexander, MP for Lothian East. The group met Mr Alexander in Westminster Hall before ...

British team Anastasia Vaipan-Law and Luke Digby are on a mission to prove there is more to their sport than step sequences and Bolero’s.

Hundreds of people have joined the search for an Army sergeant who has gone missing from his camp. Sgt Alex Cairnie, 30, of the Queen’s Royal Hussars regiment, left Tidworth Camp on Sunday. Wiltshire ...

Mr Sunak, who was prime minister between October 2022 and July 2024, is set to advise leaders across the firm.

A jury has heard evidence in the inquest for Benedict Blythe, five, who became unwell at school before his death.