The government and the Palace are ‘working closely to ensure that security arrangements are put appropriately in place’ ahead of the King’s state visit

Oil prices have soared since the US-Israel war on Iran began, driven by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz

The prime minister said he would not have made Mandelson his diplomat to Washington had Sir Olly Robbins told him the outcome of the vetting process

Two boys aged one and three, were pronounced dead at the scene of the fire

About a third of people reported brain damage after electroconvulsive therapy, with many suffering memory loss, study found

Julie Butcher was strangled by her ex-husband at their home in Swindon after she attempted to leave the marriage

The government is ‘at risk of learning the wrong lessons from this sorry episode’, the former prime minister said

The bakery chain is trialling new counters at a string of stores to try and reduce theft

Exclusive: Labour mayors say repeated U-turns, failure to communicate successes, and the Peter Mandelson scandal are pushing voters away

Writing for The Independent, Simon Weston warned that Donald Trump’s latest intervention could ‘spark his friends in Argentina’ into restarting another similar conflict

The home secretary said the UK was ’monitoring very closely’ what other countries were planning to do amid pressure on the government to bring down migration

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Kamonnan Thiamphanit, who was known to friends in the UK as Angela, was found dead at a property in Bayswater in central London in April 2024

Police have cordoned off the property while work is done to establish the cause of the fire

Hundreds of people watched as Kate commemorated the 1915 Gallipoli landing of Australian and New Zealand troops in the First World War

Two Eurofighter Typhoons were scrambled from Borcea Air Base in Romania, which shares a 650-km land border with Ukraine ⁠