A record 2.9 million children from working families in the UK are living in poverty after housing costs have been paid, the latest figures show. This means 70% of all poor children were in working families last year, up from 67% on the previous...

An inflation-busting hike in dentistry fees mean NHS patients in England will pay £1.10 extra for a routine check-up. The new charges, which begin on Monday, will also see the cost of a set of dentures rise by £12.80 to nearly £270.

An airport parking driver from Slough has been banned from driving after he was caught driving at 145 mph on the motorway.

Light therapy shone in the eyes of premature infants could prevent vision problems down the line, a new study suggests. Babies are't born with eyesight, but they have a 'molecular pathway' ready to regulate how blood vessels develop in the eye....

The family of a teenager who was murdered in Walthamstow one year ago have made a moving plea for the public’s help as a new £20,000 reward for information is announced by police.

Police investigating the murder of a shopkeeper have made a second arrest. A 31-year-old man was arrested on Friday on suspicion of murder by detectives probing the death of Ravi Katharkamar, 54, on March 24.

The great Indian rope trick mutated from fiction to iconic fact, as the country’s first killer satellite soared into space bringing India membership of the exclusive club of, which includes the United States, Russia (both pioneering leaders)...

Edinburgh Diwali, the city’s annual festival of light, is appealing for public votes to secure £50,000 of National Lottery funding as part of this year’s People’s Projects. Edinburgh Diwali brings together people of all ages, backgrounds and...

A strange timely thing happened recently. I was sitting in a cafe with my father when all of a sudden an elderly woman started shouting my name.

An east London community group fears that proposals to create two new Redbridge faith schools, which have the power to select all their pupils on the basis of religion, could be divisive. The Department for Education (DfE) unveiled 14 bids to...