The UK has now had 25 days this year when temperatures have exceeded 30C as the country experiences its third heatwave of the summer, the Met Office has said.

The UK will hold its largest home defence exercise in decades next year to better prepare the country for the possibility of war.

The bereaved families of the 1994 RAF Chinook helicopter crash cannot bring a legal claim against the Ministry of Defence over the incident, a High Court judge has ruled.

Former Liverpool player Jordon Ibe pulled a braid from his ex-girlfriend's head during an argument, a court was told.

Labour MPs are demanding Andy Burnham sets a target of creating one million jobs in production over the next decade as part of a reindustrialisation strategy.

A woman whose husband was partially sucked out of the window during a Ryanair flight has described how half of his body was left sticking out of the plane for "up to two minutes".