National News

Sir Alex Ferguson will step away from a reported £2million-a-year ambassador role with Manchester United at the end of the season as part of a club cost-cutting exercise..

Funeral directors could work at home and keep bodies of dead people in their garages, an inquiry chairman has warned as he called for a regulator to police the sector..

The Prime Minister has declined to rule out increasing employers national insurance contributions at the Budget but insisted Labour would keep its promise not to raise taxes on working people..

The Kings long-standing youth charity in the UK will formally operate under its new name from Tuesday..

The birth of a rare calf said to be the smallest species of wild cattle was captured on video at Chester Zoo..

There is an urgent need for a rapid turnaround of Englands health watchdog owing to significant failings in how it works, according to a damning review..

UK earnings growth has fallen to its lowest level for more than two years amid further signs of a weakening jobs market, according to official figures..

New weight loss jabs could be given to unemployed people to help them get back into work, Wes Streeting has suggested..

Michael Jacksons jacket and John Lennons first vox amp, which he used with the Beatles, are expected to fetch hundreds of thousands of pounds when they go under the hammer..