No cuts will be made to neighbourhood policing despite a “stretch in the system”, the chief of the Metropolitan Police has confirmed. Sir Mark Rowley, who heads the country’s largest police force, has ...

A former RAF pilot who launched a charity which flies humanitarian aid to isolated communities has died, with his wife paying tribute to him having “lavished 103 years of love” into the world.

Israel has released 110 Palestinian prisoners after eight hostages in the Gaza Strip were freed by Hamas-led militants earlier in the day. It was a sometimes chaotic process that briefly called the ...

Joe Saumarez Smith has stood down from his role as chair of the British Horseracing Authority with immediate effect due to deteriorating health. Saumarez Smith, who was diagnosed with cancer in June ...

The former head of a South African arts festival has been appointed chief executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society. Tony Lankester joins the society from Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, ...

City will face one of those two European heavyweights in the Champions League next month after scraping through to the play-off round on Wednesday.