Gavin Williamson will have to deliver an increase in spending on England's schools after replacing Damian Hinds as the new education secretary.

A predator who killed his stepmum has now been jailed for raping a 14-year-old girl in the back of his car and fathering her child.

The Centre for Sikh and Panjabi Studies at the University of Wolverhampton is hosting an inaugural conference which charts the history of Sikh studies through the years.

The identity of a teenager who plotted to behead police officers at an Anzac Day parade in Australia will remain a secret for the rest of his life.

A six-year-old girl was killed in a road crash less than a year after moving to the UK, an inquest heard. Daljit Khalsa, from Afghanistan, died of head injuries after being hit by a car in Slough on 26 October last year.

Thousands of chickens roasted to death inside in an intensive poultry farm as temperatures reached 38C last week.  

The younger brother of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi will stand trial in November charged with murdering the 22 victims of the attack. Hashem Abedi, 22, appeared at Oxford Crown Court by prison video link for a preliminary hearing.

A suspect arrested over the death of a man found shot dead in a car has been released on bail.

A "pioneering" scheme in Sheffield has helped boost children's sleep by 2.4 hours a night, according to NHS England. 

Boris Johnson whose life-long ambition was to become PM, the highest position one can achieve in British politics, has at last climbed the ladder to sit on the podium. Now burning question is will he succeed or crumble under pressure.  Media...