The Conservative’s Mark Pritchard said the Government would not be forgiven for taking the British staple away from the UK’s high streets.

The Japanese-born writer, 70, was made a Companion of Honour for services to literature at an event at Windsor Castle on Tuesday.

Environment Minister Andrew Muir has said Northern Ireland should have its own environmental protection agency.

He is none the worse for the tumble and holds a host of entries for the weekend, with the Grand Sefton at Aintree looking an attractive option for a stable that had plenty of form over the big fences ...

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy expects the BBC to examine questions around editorial standards thoroughly, No 10 said.

A social media boss has said it would be “tyrannical overreach” to remove a video of a “horrific” stabbing which was watched by Axel Rudakubana on the morning of the Southport attack. Rudakubana, then ...

The move acts on one of 12 recommendations made by Baroness Louise Casey in her review of grooming gangs published in June.

Labour MP Alice Macdonald called on the Government to ‘right this wrong’ as she introduced her 10-minute rule Bill in the Commons.

Speaking in Downing Street, she said: “As I take my decisions on both tax and spend, I will do what is necessary to protect families from high inflation and interest rates, to protect our public ...

Rose Henderson described how upsetting it had been to see insults online after the case came to public attention.

The author said he will decide on the character in his final standalone novel, but they will be named after the winning bidder.

Here is a full list of the latest estimates of the percentage of adults who are current smokers in each local authority area of the UK. The figures have been published by the Office for National ...