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One in nine new homes were built in flood risk areas between 2022 and 2024, exposing a “worrying” rising trend, analysis shows..

UK inflation has eased to its lowest since March last year on the back of falling petrol prices and slower food price increases, according to official figures..

Sick days taken from school have increased by 50% during flu season, analysis has found, as health experts call on the Government to increase vaccine rollout..

The Rev Jesse L Jackson, a protege of the Dr Martin Luther King Jr and two-time presidential candidate who led the civil rights movement for decades after Dr King’s assassination, has died. He was 84..

YouTuber and experimental singer-songwriter Look Mum No Computer will represent the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna in May, the BBC has announced..

A nine-year-old boy has become the first person in the UK to have pioneering surgery to make him taller..

Six companies linked to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s ex-wife Sarah Ferguson are being wound down in the wake of the publication of the Epstein files, Companies House documents show..

Further yellow warnings for snow and ice will come into force on Monday, covering large swathes of the UK..

Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to act in “months, not years” to protect young people from addictive social media platforms, amid calls for a ban for under-16s..

Former British Vogue editor Edward Enninful is to get a wax statue in Madame Tussauds to celebrate London Fashion Week..

Around one in three workers feel less satisfied and engaged in their job, hitting their productivity, research suggests..

The average price tag on a home edged down by £12 month-on-month in February following a record jump of nearly £10,000 in January, according to a property website..

Team GB chef de mission Eve Muirhead has hailed the greatest day in British Winter Olympic history as records tumbled like an avalanche in Livigno and Cortina..

A yellow snow warning is in force in part of the UK as flooding is expected in more than 70 areas..

Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale roared to Great Britain’s best ever result on snow at the Winter Olympics as they claimed a thrilling gold medal in mixed team snowboard cross..

Larry the cat is marking 15 years as No 10’s mouse catcher after serving six prime ministers in Downing Street..

New sanctions against Moscow could follow from Britain and its allies blaming the Kremlin for poisoning Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has suggested..

The gender pay gap will not close for another 30 years at the current rate of progress, according to a new report..

Skeleton Success as Matt Weston wins UK's first solo gold at a winter games since 1980.

The Royal Navy will work with NATO allies after US threats to Greenland.

An unseen photo of the Prince and Princess of Wales has been released to mark Valentine’s Day..

A married couple whose lives were saved by organ transplants have urged people to join the donor register as one of them faces a wait for a new kidney..

A good kiss has more to do with the “thoughts, fantasies and emotional context we bring to it” than the physical act itself, scientists have discovered..

Palestine Action remains banned as a terror group despite its co-founder winning a High Court challenge..

The Trump administration has revoked a scientific finding that has been the central basis for US action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change..

The medicines regulator has urged men to avoid buying unauthorised erectile dysfunction (ED) pills online after it emerged that almost 20 million illegal tablets have been seized in the last five years..

Pop star Kylie Minogue has said it was “really special” to see her likeness created in a new Barbie doll, dressed in her red Padam Padam music video costume..

Energy giant Centrica has announced a £2.4 million partnership with Multibank in a huge boost to the charity set up by former prime minister Gordon Brown..

A stroke survivor whose only symptom was being unable to read has urged people to look out for uncommon signs of the potentially deadly condition..

Thomas Tuchel has signed an extension to his contract as England head coach through to the end of the home European Championship in 2028..

Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis made Sean Dyche his third managerial sacking of the season in a desperate bid to avoid relegation..

Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe has apologised that his claim Britain has been “colonised” by migrants “offended some people in the UK and Europe”..

Lessons can be learned from the “extreme case” of the death of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon’s baby, the chairman of a major safeguarding review said..

The United Kingdom will provide Ukraine with more than £500 million in new defence missiles and systems, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced..

The Raac (reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete) crisis in school buildings has affected pupils’ learning and wellbeing, MPs have said, despite Government progress towards fixing it..