Bishop of Manchester criticises those who use Christmas ‘as a prop in a dim culture war’ as clergy warn against ‘populist forces’ exploiting Christianity

Health bosses are warning this winter could see the ‘most severe flu outbreak in decades’

Charlie Quirke, the son of Birds Of A Feather actor Pauline Quirke, completed his 140km (87-mile) fundraising trek for Alzheimer’s research on Friday (12 December).

Former prince attends christening of granddaughter at St James’s Palace

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The Met Office has warned that some parts of the UK may see flooding this weekend as heavy bands of rain arrive

Parliament-based campaigners to set out ‘gold-standard’ reforms including banning trail-hunting

Tom Dolphin says ‘the same model that has worked for all the previous strikes to keep patients safe will apply’ during next week’s planned walkout, which comes amid surging flu cases

The victims, aged 13 to 16 at the time of the offences (2014 - 2019) were sometimes plied with alcohol or cocaine before they were sexually abused

Meteors set to create spectacular display as they enter Earth's atmosphere at 40 kilometres per second

According to an internal leak Labour has lost 100,000 paid up members since the election leaving Reform UK as the UK’s biggest party

The King gave a personal update as he urged Brits to take up screening programmes

The frozen cap has been called the ‘evil twin’ of the two-child benefit limit

The King recorded a special message in support of Stand Up to Cancer that was aired on Friday evening

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has seen his reputation damaged over his friendship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein

House Oversight Democrats released images of high-profile figures including Andrew and US president Donald Trump from Epstein’s estate

One school told parents it would move to remote learning due to rising flu cases

US president reignited feud with London mayor last month, making claims about crime in the capital

Thomas Craig launched an attack on fellow passengers on a Scottish train

Labour environment secretary Ed Miliband under pressure as Europe prepares to water down key net zero pledge

Economy contracted by 0.1 per cent in October, according to the Office for National Statistics

The child told police that during contact with Rhodes he continued to give them instructions to stick to the plan

Our community says the ‘flunami’ was inevitable – with many arguing that years of underfunding, workforce pressures and rising demand have left the NHS acutely vulnerable to any sudden spike in winter illness

Pre-Budget worries and speculation that chancellor Rachel Reeves would hike income tax has been blamed

Post Office has encouraged customers to send their cards and gifts as soon as possible

Experts said daily tea drinkers had a lower risk of osteoporosis

Kim Leadbeater, the Labour MP behind the assisted dying bill, has hit out at peers for tabling more than 1,000 amendments in what she believes is a bid to talk it out before it can become law

No electric gadgets are in the list of the 10 most popular requests