If you can work, you should,’ social security minister Sir Stephen Timms told MPs before they voted on the welfare reforms.

Lord Harrington, now a non-affiliated peer, apologised for miscalculating the period he had to give notice for jobs he took up after leaving office.

Some victims were sent to prison or financially ruined, others were shunned by their communities, and some took their own lives.

Plumber Sean O’Meara, 36, was wearing a gas-mask and body armour when he was shot and seriously injured by a police officer on Monday night ...

The robot operated with the expertise of a skilled human surgeon, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers in the US.

Contractors are “on standby” to remove a loyalist bonfire in south Belfast which has sparked concern, a Sinn Fein MLA has said. Legal action is also understood to be planned against the towering pyre ...

A five-year-old boy who died after an allergic reaction at school was accidentally exposed to cow’s milk protein – probably from his own bottle, an inquest jury has concluded.

Paul Edwards was 17 and studying for his A-levels when he was knocked off his motorbike, suffering multiple fractures.

Nicholas Prosper was jailed for life with a minimum term of 49 years in March after admitting the murders of his mother and siblings.

Gregory Twigg, 32, has denied intending to cause serious harm to Lee Woodward, 39, who died in hospital 10 months after he was punched three times.

A man is in hospital after he was on the edge of Tower Bridge on the wrong side of the barrier. The London Ambulance Service was called around 9.15pm yesterday (July 8) to reports of the incident. A ...

Rachael Maskell said pressing ahead with the welfare reform Bill risked leaving “such a stain” on her party, as she urged ministers to scrap a proposed change to the out-of-work element of universal ...