A student accused of the murder of physical trainer Amie Gray on Bournemouth beach told police that he was not responsible and he would not “attack someone for no reason”, a court has heard.

Stephen Cottrell is due to take on many of the soon-to-step-down Archbishop of Canterbury’s official functions temporarily from early January.

Grammy-nominated rapper Slowthai has been cleared of raping two women at a house party after a gig. The rapper, whose real name is Tyron Frampton, 29, and his co-accused Alex Blake-Walker, 27, were ...

Expert spelunker Ottavia Piana is blocked in a deep inside the Bueno Fonteno cave near the Italian city of Bergamo.

Businesses said increases in the cost of employing people plus falling confidence were making it harder to recruit new staff.

A 12-year-old girl has appeared in court charged with the manslaughter of pensioner Bhim Kohli, who died after an alleged attack while walking his dog in a park near his home. Mr Kohli, aged 80, died ...

Concerns are growing over new models coming to market that are driving up the waste crisis as the incoming ban on single-use vapes looms.

Here, the PA news agency looks who Mr Kretinsky is and what the new ownership could mean for the historic British company.

The “malignant culture” of the Post Office destroyed the lives of the victims of the Horizon IT scandal, not the system itself, an inquiry has heard. The Horizon IT Inquiry was told the Post Office’s ...

A man from Blakeney in north Norfolk has come face to face with a highly threatened, red-listed woodcock in his garden in Blakeney, north Norfolk.

Three flood alerts have been issued along the River Bure and in the Hundred Foot Washes with the government warning people to be prepared.

The Met Office has warned gales of up to 50mph could batter parts of Norfolk, with coastal towns and villages to bear the brunt.