Crowds gathered along Belfast Lough to witness the arrival of Britain's 65,000-tonne aircraft carrier, as the Royal Navy's formidable warship made history with the first carrier visit to the Northern ...

Children attending independent schools are being charged more than state school pupils for educational visits and workshops at some of Britain's leading cultural and scientific institutions, raising ...

Royal Navy sailors have returned to an emotional homecoming in Portsmouth after spending 214 days protecting British military bases, safeguarding international shipping and operating in some of the ...

Investigation raises serious questions about a system that links medical diagnoses to financial support, as disability claims soar and taxpayers face an increasingly expensive welfare bill. Britain's ...

Kaimhill School described its seasonal cards as 'winter cards' in the name of inclusivity, prompting widespread criticism. The school insists its Christmas fair, festive lunch and carol singing are ...

Home Office figures released to Parliament show dozens of Freedom of Information responses stuck beyond 40 working days in ...

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband insists Britain's nearly 200-year-old diplomatic mission will remain open, but Israel says the Consulate-General has ceased functioning in its former capacity, with the ...

The terrorism-related prison population has reached its highest level in the published Home Office series, with 57 per cent of those in custody classified as holding Islamist-extremist views.

Britain's national fusion laboratory helped prove a world-first temperature milestone for Magnetised Target Fusion, with a Culham-built diagnostic measuring plasma hotter than 12 million degrees ...

The arrival of one of Britain's most powerful warships in Belfast has prompted a stark warning that Northern Ireland's strategic importance to the defence of the United Kingdom is not being matched by ...

New Health Foundation modelling suggests that, if recent trends continue, the waiting-time threshold for 92 per cent of incomplete NHS referral-to-treatment pathways in England could reach almost 35 ...

Six Second World War servicemen who lay for decades in graves marked ‘unknown’ have been named at services in the Netherlands and Germany, among them two men from Sheffield. Four were the crew of a ...