THE EUROPEAN UNION is "in a race" to sign lucrative free trade agreements with New Zealand and Australia, potentially resulting in post-Brexit tension with the UK.

HEAVY traffic delays have been reported this morning due to an accident on the M6 motorway in Cheshire this morning.

THE BBC's incoming chairman Richard Sharp has branded the licence fee the "least worst" option for funding the broadcaster - but should the annual charge be scrapped altogether?

NICOLA STURGEON has come under fire after the slow start to Scotland's Covid-19 vaccination programme with furious critics accusing of her making more "empty announcements".

NICOLA STURGEON has been accused of jeopardising the UK's coronavirus vaccine roll out after the Scottish Government published its deployment schedule.

THE CORONAVIRUS R-number in the UK has fallen below one as cases are continuing to decline, according to scientists.

COVID infection and death figures are released on a daily basis by Public Health England, but Thursday's death figures were published late. What were the figures yesterday? Why were Covid death figures delayed yesterday?

MANCHESTER has an incredible underground network hidden below the streets, and now another tunnel has been explored just six miles outside the city.

NICOLA STURGEON risks infuriating millions of Scots as her independence plan will see them giving up free prescriptions and several other benefits, an economist has told Express.co.uk.

PASSENGERS in the North are up in arms after planned "smart' train and bus payment cards were torn up by Government funding cuts.