Train operator Avanti West Coast is “making progress” in improving its performance but there is “still more to do”, managing director Andy Mellors said. He told the PA news agency the company must ...

An environmentalist behind the world’s largest “plogging” community has called on leaders at Cop29 to offer “climate optimism” amid widespread disappointment among young people. Vivek Gurav, 29, who ...

Welwyn business owner Andrea Boughton, founder of Beehive Green, scooped a top award for creativity at the Best Businesswoman Awards.

The price of Bitcoin has surged past the 81,000 US dollar (£63,000) mark for the first time as the cryptocurrency continues to rally higher after Donald Trump’s victory in the US election last week.

The adult male was found on November 1 on a popular tourist beach in the town of Denmark in temperate south-west Australia — about 2,200 miles north of the icy waters off the Antarctic coast, ...

The WMO said that while long-term warming measured over decades remains below 1.5C, the past 10 years are the warmest on record, ocean heat reached new records in 2023, sea-level rise is accelerating, ...

Sir Keir Starmer said he was honoured to pay tribute to the fallen of the First World War alongside Emmanuel Macron.

Former soldier Daniel Khalife has pleaded guilty partway through his trial to escaping from prison. The 23-year-old escaped from HMP Wandsworth in south-west London in September 2023 by clinging to ...

Donald Trump is expected to support Ukraine for “as long as it takes to prevail” over Russia, the Defence Secretary has said. John Healey said he believes the incoming administration will be ...

The Makin review into Smyth’s abuse, published last week, concluded that he might have been brought to justice had the Archbishop of Canterbury formally reported it to police a decade ago. Smyth died ...

Henry Faure-Walker, Newsquest CEO, said: “It has been a delight to support the NSPCC throughout this year – and I hope that we can spread some festive cheer by helping them to raise as much funds as ...