Barry Gardiner, shadow international trade secretary, was in the eye of the storm when he found himself embroiled in a controversy which claimed that he has received over £180,000 in staff costs from a firm that acts as chief legal adviser to...

A job seeker with an English-sounding name was offered three times the number of interviews than an applicant with a Muslim name, a BBC test found.

The free entitlement to childcare for all parents in England should be scrapped in favour of a system aimed at disadvantaged children, a report says. The Institute of Economic Affairs study says the right to 15 hours free care a week has distorted...

The Metropolitan Police has launched a #giveupyourgun campaign as part of weeklong firearm surrender.

The government has started the process of selling more student loan debt to the private financial sector. It has announced that loans made to students in England between 2002 and 2006 will be put up for sale - to be followed by other pre-2012...

Budget Day in India, as it is in most democracies, never fails to give rise to public excitement. Invariably, the mood of expectation is high, its delivery in the public space results in mood swings, from high to low and high again, until it...

We are in the process of closing a deal, this apartment is humongous at 2,185 sq. ft. This is not the size to purchase as a typical BTL investment; generally speaking, smaller is better. A colleague in the trade, who specialises in studios,...

A senior judge has criticised lawyers representing a gang of child sex groomers who are seeking to avoid deportation.

An elderly man found dead near a Sikh temple had been beaten so badly police believed he had been hit by a car, a court heard.

A man has admitted pulling a niqab off a woman and subjecting her to a tirade of racial abuse.