A record half a million people have received a dementia diagnosis on the NHS, figures show. NHS figures published this week show 506,549 people have received a formal dementia diagnosis, compared with ...

The Home Secretary wants to give a new adjudication panel the power to decide asylum appeals to speed up the process.

A man who died after suffering serious head injuries in a “workplace accident” at a funfair has been named by police. Emergency services rushed to the Spanish City Summer Funfair in Whitley Bay in ...

The sisters from war-torn Sudan are the latest known victims of a Mediterranean migration route that has claimed more than 30,000 lives since 2014.

The festival began early on Sunday with the J’ouvert celebration where people covered each other in paint, coloured powder and chocolate.

Across East Devon, memory cafés are providing a vital lifeline for people living with memory loss and their carers.

At least one person was killed on Sunday in an explosion at a prominent retail building in central Moscow, emergency services said. The blast happened on the third floor of the Central Children’s ...

Sightings of great white sharks are on the rise in the waters off the north-east coast of the United States – an area where ...

Emergency services were called to Indian Aroma in Woodford Avenue, Gants Hill, Ilford, at about 9pm on Friday.

A corgi named Amigo, sporting a factory-themed costume complete with two tiny chimneys and “Fur Factory” lettering, was named ...

A MASSIVE two-and-a-half year operation to clear up a container ship which grounded off the Jurassic Coast was a 'turning point' in the way ...

The carnival, Europe’s biggest street party and an annual extravaganza over the summer bank holiday weekend, helps celebrate Caribbean culture and history. The festival began early on Sunday with the ...