There's a warning of heavy traffic on roads to popular tourist destinations as the bank holiday getaway begins.

A growing number of UK households are dipping into savings as rising costs linked to the US-Iran war pile pressure on family budgets, according to a closely-watched survey as official figures chart a collapse in fuel sales.

Police are investigating Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor over potential sex crimes, it is understood.

The number of people diagnosed with the deadliest form of skin cancer each year in the UK has risen above 20,000 for the first time, new figures show.

The ex-girlfriend of a boyband singer has been accused of trying to hire a hitman to kill him as part of a custody dispute over their seven-year-old daughter, prosecutors in Los Angeles have said.

In 2012, Africa's oldest surviving political party expelled South African opposition leader Julius Malema for "bringing the party into disrepute" and "sowing internal divisions". Fourteen years on, he has shown he can still throw the African National Congress (ANC) into disarray.