Police have discovered human remains on a motorway carriageway near Bristol and have shut parts of two motorways in both directions. A number of drivers called the police and reported seeing something on the road between junctions 20 and 21 […]
Police shut parts of M4 motorway near Bristol after human remains discovered | Bristol Read More »
Peter Mandelson is set to become Britain’s next ambassador to the US, the first time a politician has been appointed to the role for almost half a century. It is understood that Keir Starmer is about to announce that Lord
Peter Mandelson ‘to be announced as UK’s next US ambassador’ | Peter Mandelson Read More »
In 1561, a little-known charter granted the University of Cambridge the power to arrest and imprison any woman “suspected of evil”. For nearly 350 years, the university used this law to incarcerate young working-class women found walking with undergraduates after
Rishi Sunak’s top aides advised him not to call an early election, warning him that voters would be less likely to feel “financially optimistic” in the summer and that Conservatives would not be able to “hit Labour hard with both
Rishi Sunak’s top aides advised against early election, memo reveals | Rishi Sunak Read More »
Tributes have been paid to a 37-year-old woman who died in a house fire in Greater Manchester where her four children survived. Kate Mulcahy was found dead inside her home in Middleton after a fire broke out early on Sunday
Tributes paid to mother who died in house fire where four children survived | Manchester Read More »
Since the middle ages, they have grazed on the commons of Cambridge, crossing paths with the scholars of colleges beside the River Cam. But the sight of cows chewing the cud on public land in the centre of the city
King Charles will lay wreaths at the Cenotaph and lead the nation in a two-minute silence at 11am to remember the dead who gave their lives in two world wars as well as those who have died in other conflicts
The NHS is “drinking in the last-chance saloon” and needs to reform, the former health secretary Alan Milburn has warned as he prepares to take up a senior role in the health department. Milburn, who brought about radical changes such
NHS in ‘last-chance saloon’, says former health secretary Alan Milburn | NHS Read More »
A 14-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder after a 13-year-old girl was stabbed in the neck, stomach, chest and back near Hull on Friday morning. The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has also been charged
Boy, 14, charged with attempted murder after stabbing of girl, 13, near Hull | England Read More »
She was a proto-feminist author whose phenomenally popular novels commanded unprecedented fees and influenced the work of Jane Austen, Lord Byron, John Keats, Mary Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry James, the Brontë sisters and Charles Dickens. Yet for centuries, Ann
