The King has sent a warm private congratulatory 100th birthday message to former US president Jimmy Carter, expressing his admiration for his life of public service. Mr Carter became the first former ...

Bedfordshire and Oxfordshire had their wettest month in records dating back to 1836, while other counties had their wettest September.

Coco Gauff reached the quarter-finals of the China Open after Naomi Osaka retired with a back injury in Beijing. This was a much-anticipated fifth meeting between two of the WTA Tour’s biggest stars – ...

Taylor Swift tickets given as gifts to politicians and their families are “only for the leaders of the Labour Party”, Robert Jenrick has said. Mr Jenrick and fellow Tory leadership candidate James ...

They will urge the party chairman to bring forward the result if they are in the final two so the winner can respond to the Budget.

Hull KR head coach Willie Peters is confident star half-back Mikey Lewis will continue to shrug off the superlatives and keep playing a key role in his club’s bid to end their 39-year major trophy ...

London Underground workers have given a fresh mandate for strike action while pay talks continue. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) voted by more than 9-1 in favour of taking ...

Mr Jenrick continues to face backlash for claiming that UK special forces are ‘killing rather than capturing’ terrorists.

A luxury cruise ship which was stranded in Northern Ireland for four months remains in Belfast Lough hours after it left the city’s harbour. Chief executive of Villa Vie Residences Mike Petterson said ...

James Cleverly’s Conservative Party leadership race rival Robert Jenrick said he was ‘sorely tempted’ to scrap the charge.

Wigan Warriors prodigy Grace Banks cites childhood experience competing against boys as key to her rise in rugby, toughening her up for ...

Villa will play their first home fixture in Europe’s top competition since a quarter-final defeat to Juventus in 1983.