Bexley Council said it's struggling to recruit staff in some areas and some placements of vulnerable children are costing £8,000 a week

Brussels to act later this week against Facebook and Instagram owner over policies on deceptive advertising and political content, reports say

The Guardian and Le Monde among latest outlets blocked, following on from BBC and VOA last week

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of May 5-11 include musician Billy Joel, model Linda Evangelista and sports anchor Chris Berman

Someone spray-painted ‘Say no to genocide’ on the base of the Tommy Trojan statue on the USC campus Saturday night as pro-Palestinian protests denouncing the Israel-Hamas war continued

Two men have now been charged with murder after a torso was discovered in a nature reserve. Michal Jaroslaw Polchowski, 68, and Marcin Majerkiewicz, 42, both of Worsley Road, Eccles, were charged with murder as more human remains were discovered in t ...

Work and pensions secretary Mel Stride appeared to suggest some people who were labelled as having “serious mental health conditions” were simply struggling with the “ups and downs of life” during a live interview on Monday (29 Ap ...

John Swinney has said that he is giving “very active consideration” to being SNP leader after Humza Yousaf announced his resignation on Monday, 29 April. The first minister’s statement came after days of political turmoil following his ...

Humza Yousaf fought back tears as he announced his resignation as Scottish first minister on Monday (29 April). Mr Yousaf announced he was stepping down during a press conference at Bute house in Edinburgh, just days before a vote on his leadership w ...

Billy Vunipola was tasered twice by police officers before being arrested after an early-morning incident in a bar in Majorca

Galena got into shoe box before it was shipped out to California and survived a week without food or water

Scottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater has welcomed calls for Humza Yousaf to resign, describing how he tore up a relationship “based on trust and mutual respect” in ending the powersharing deal last week. The first minister is reportedly c ...

Speculation Scotland’s first minister is to resign before he faces no confidence vote later this week

The no-confidence vote comes after the collapse of Mr Yousaf’s power-sharing agreement with the Greens last week

Humanitarian group paused operations for approximately four weeks after the fatal Israeli airstrike on a three-vehicle convoy

‘Sickening’ act of ‘performative cruelty’ would further traumatise people fleeing persecution and torture, charity warns

Don’t be deluded by media hullabaloo – but smart employers can get creative with schedules to attract and retain talent

Exclusive: Operation comes weeks earlier than expected and is thought to have been timed to coincide with local elections

New leader is part of rebels desperate ‘100 days to save Britain’ plan as Conservatives panic over threat of massive losses in local lections this week

Drubbing for Tories in next week’s local elections could force Sunak’s hand