A man is in hospital after he was on the edge of Tower Bridge on the wrong side of the barrier. The London Ambulance Service was called around 9.15pm yesterday (July 8) to reports of the incident. A ...

A former employee at a Fife children’s home has told the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI) that allegations of abuse made against him by former residents are “absolute nonsense”.

Rachael Maskell said pressing ahead with the welfare reform Bill risked leaving “such a stain” on her party, as she urged ministers to scrap a proposed change to the out-of-work element of universal ...

Resident doctors will go on strike for five consecutive days later this month in their dispute with the Government over pay, the British Medical Association (BMA) has said. Announcing strike dates ...

A woman who knifed a mother to death after a row at a child’s birthday party has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 23 years, police said.

Hassan Jhangur hit five people with his car when he arrived at his sister’s wedding reception, where a fight had broken out between the ...

Campaign group Save Wimbledon Park is challenging the decision of the Greater London Authority to grant planning permission for the expansion.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault in Epping. Police were called to High Road, Epping, yesterday (July 8) at 5.20pm to reports of a person acting inappropriately. Officers arrived ...

Campaigners, school children and grandparents were among those calling for MPs to give the crisis the ‘precedence it needs’.

A former Met Police officer who hid a camera in a child’s bedroom and bathroom to take indecent images has avoided prison. Lee Hargrave, 49, of Egham in Surrey, pleaded guilty to voyeurism and ...

There were 247,703 conceptions leading to a legal abortion in 2022, a 13.1 rise on the 218,923 recorded in 2021, the ONS said.

First-time buyers could be given a boost by lenders having the ability to offer more mortgages at high loan-to-income (LTI) levels, if they choose to. The Bank of England said its Financial Policy ...