Local government minister Jim McMahon said local government reforms would give elected councillors ‘far more power’ to make decisions in ...

Prosecutors and the defence have agreed to recommend a sentence of between four and six years in prison, according to the plea agreement.

The UK has sent a team of senior officials to Damascus for talks with Syrian’s interim leaders, including banned terror group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the ...

The raid comes a week after fighters marched on the Syrian capital in their lightning offensive that forced Syrian President Bashar Assad to flee.

A murderer has said he “hated” his victim’s mother for campaigning for a key change in the double jeopardy law that eventually brought him to justice. The public parole hearing for William Dunlop, who ...

Deputy Prime Minister Ms Rayner said the Government was ‘taking a step towards relighting the fire in our great regions’.

Lawyers for child serial killer Lucy Letby will make a fresh bid to challenge her convictions on the grounds that the lead prosecution medical expert at her trial was “not reliable”.

Ryan Wellings, 30, is accused of driving his partner, Kiena Dawes, 23, to kill herself from domestic abuse and violence ...

Ashley Hurst, of Osborne Clarke law firm, is alleged to have ‘improperly attempted to restrict’ Dan Neidle’s right to publish ...

A murderer’s public parole hearing has been branded “a shambles” by the victim’s family after technical difficulties meant they couldn’t hear proceedings. The hearing for William Dunlop, who strangled ...

A second unmarked mass grave has been confirmed in Royton Cemetery after a candlelit vigil remembered the babies buried in the first discovered site.

Ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad says he had no plans to leave the country after the fall of Damascus a week ago but the Russian military evacuated him after their base in western Syria came under ...