National News

School absence rates in the UK doubled from pre-pandemic levels as a knock-on effect of lockdown restrictions and school closures caused by Covid-19, a new report has found..

Yvette Cooper will chair a summit aimed at destroying the criminal gangs involved in smuggling people over the English Channel in small boats..

ITV drama Mr Bates Vs The Post Office is to receive the National Television Awards (NTA) Impact Award for creating a huge cultural shift..

Researchers hope a trial of a new drug for the treatment of ectopic pregnancy could help hundreds of women every year avoid emergency surgery..

Four-piece indie band English Teacher have won the 2024 Mercury Prize for their debut album This Could Be Texas..

A former music teacher at Eton College has been banned indefinitely from teaching in England after he was found to have searched for indecent images of children on a school-issued laptop..

A senior Army officer who drunkenly touched and tried to kiss a woman in a karaoke bar while leading an overseas military delegation has received a six-month suspended prison sentence..

Strictly Come Dancing judge Anton Du Beke has said the shows upcoming series will be brilliant despite controversy over allegations of abuse..