No migrants have been recorded crossing the English Channel for 11 days, the longest gap so far this year. The most recent date on which people arrived in the UK after making the journey by boat was ...

Fire crews in Somerset will no longer automatically respond to automatic fire alarms going off, writes Phil Hill. It comes as figures show only 1.7 per cent of nearly 58,000 alarm alerts in the Devon ...

A judge from BBC's Masterchef has doubled down in the hope of reopening a Somerset pub near Taunton that recently closed down.

A medieval tower in the heart of Italy’s capital, near the famous Roman Forum ruins, has partially collapsed during work to renovate the structure, seriously injuring at least one worker, Italian ...

Leigh Day Solicitors said documents from Sheffield Hallam University suggested it had banned Professor Laura Murphy from continuing her research.

PC Thomas West is the subject of a misconduct hearing at the force’s headquarters in Portishead next Monday morning (November 10). He is accused of breaching the Standards of Professional Behaviour ...

Health officials in Gaza have said Israel has handed over the bodies of 45 Palestinians. Zaher al-Wahidi, a spokesperson at the Gaza health ministry, said Nasser Hospital in Gaza received the bodies ...

Ukraine has received more American-made Patriot air defence systems to help it counter Russia’s daily barrages, President Volodymyr Zelensky said. It came as Russian drones killed a man and injured ...

Some 2.2 million people are estimated to have used insurer-provided health services across the year, 23% more than in 2022, the ABI said. Customers accessed these services 10.3 million times to help ...

The 35-year-old Welsh star said the surgery was ‘not to treat a new cancer diagnosis’ but came following an appointment with her medical team.

University of Dundee staff are to take five days of strike action next week in a dispute over job cuts. The action by University and College Union (UCU) members comes after they walked out earlier ...

Engineers at three Speyside distilleries, including for the famous Macallan whisky, have announced a series of strikes starting next week. In a dispute over rota changes, engineers at Edrington’s ...