Chancellor Olaf Scholz has formally set Germany on course for an early election by requesting a confidence vote in parliament next week.

The Queen got into the festive spirit by helping to light a Christmas pudding during a lunch for volunteers and joked – “hold on to your hair”. Camilla poured liberal amounts of brandy over the huge ...

Prisons in England and Wales will run out of space despite Government plans to build four more jails, the Justice Secretary admitted.

Transgender women will be banned from playing in the female category in most domestic tennis competitions in Britain from next month.

There was no evidence of police collusion in the original investigation into the 1978 La Mon House Hotel bombing, a report from the Police Ombudsman has said. The report also said there had been an ...