The next general election will see 16-year-olds able to vote for the first time, ministers have confirmed in wide-ranging plans to “modernise our democracy”. Labour’s manifesto committed the party to ...

The broadband giant is launching a range of new Optical Network Terminals with re-engineered casings made mainly from recycled plastic.

French authorities in an inflatable boat passed life jackets to those on board the overcrowded dingy, which was leaving the coast across the Channel.

A charity set up by consumer champion Martin Lewis says the approach to collecting benefits overpayments should be urgently reformed. The Money and Mental Health Policy Institute said some people are ...

Rachael Maskell, who lost the Labour whip in a purge of troublemakers, said the Prime Minister was wrong to act in the way he had.

Cricket Ireland has stepped in to reschedule the event which was cancelled after local residents expressed concern at the inclusion of a GAA club.

The inquest has opened into the death of a four-year-old boy who was killed by a falling gravestone in a cemetery. Eli Testa was killed on Saturday, July 5 at Rawtenstall Cemetery after the cross from ...

The Office for National Statistics said the rate of UK unemployment increased to 4.7 in the three months to May.

A long-running Coronation Street character is set to be 'killed off' in 'dramatic' scenes on the ITV soap after 11 years in Weatherfield, ...

The car maker said around 1.5 of its UK workforce would be affected by the job cuts, which are going as part of a voluntary redundancy programme.

People are being urged to retune their TVs to access four channel changes made on July 16 as part of the latest Freeview update.

Tens of thousands of passengers were disrupted when French ATC staff walked out on July 3 and 4 in a dispute over working conditions.