1+ hour, 1+ min ago  (606+ words) The Met Office warning was posted for Monday and Tuesday for parts of the UK. The heatwave threshold will likely be met for some at the weekend before the week starts with an amber extreme heat warning, with temperatures potentially…...

13+ hour, 1+ min ago  (576+ words) For Women Scotland, which had challenged the policy, welcomed Lady Ross's decision. A campaign group has hailed a "victory" for vulnerable women prisoners after a judge ruled it is unlawful for trans women to be housed in the female prison…...

8+ hour, 11+ min ago  (949+ words) A car and two houses linked to Sir Keir Starmer were set alight in May last year. Two "useful idiots" have been jailed for a series of arson attacks targeting Sir Keir Starmer on the orders of a shadowy Russian-speaking…...

12+ hour, 21+ min ago  (946+ words) Janice Nix was found guilty last month of the manslaughter of Andrea Bernard by forcing her into the bath in Thornton Heath, south London, in 1978. A stepmother has been jailed for 12 years for killing a five-year-old girl by scalding her…...

13+ hour, 21+ min ago  (569+ words) One of three prisoners who murdered a child killer in his cell has been given a whole life order " a sentence his two accomplices were already serving. Convicted killers Mark Fellows, 45, Lee Newell, 57, and David Taylor, 64, stabbed Kyle Bevan to…...

13+ hour, 36+ min ago  (355+ words) UK banks and firms involved in the private credit market have been asked to stress-test their systems against a "severe but plausible" scenario where the world economy plunges into a deep global recession. The Bank of England set out how…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (384+ words) This season's crop was registering unusually highly on the Brix scale, which measures the approximate sugar content of fruit, figures suggested. British raspberries are up to 50% sweeter than usual because of the cool spring followed by record-breaking May temperatures, according…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago  (354+ words) Director-general Matt Brittin has announced plans for up to 2, 000 jobs to be axed overall in a cost savings plan. BBC director-general Matt Brittin has announced that 550 of the planned 1, 800 to 2, 000 job cuts at the corporation will be taken from BBC…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago  (419+ words) Matthew O'Toole told Westminster's Northern Ireland Affairs Committee that the people have lost faith in Stormont. A "lack of delivery" for the people from Stormont is "toxic", the leader of the Opposition has said. Matthew O'Toole argued that both the…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago  (429+ words) Two witnesses have accused the former DUP leader of sexual offences. Two witnesses who have accused Sir Jeffrey Donaldson of sexual offences are not "sufficiently reliable enough" for the jury to find him guilty, a barrister has told a court....