The deadline to submit a postal vote application for people in England, Scotland and Wales is 5pm on Wednesday.

Completed postal votes must have reached councils by 10pm on polling day, July 4. They can be returned by post or handed in ...

An inquest into the death of Leah Croucher will open on Wednesday after police and the Probation Service admitted failings and “lost opportunities” in the case. The 19-year-old disappeared after ...

Politicians using refugees as “political scapegoats or footballs” must be reminded they are people in need of empathy and compassion, Bridgerton actor Adjoa Andoh has said.

Cancer survival in the UK is “stuck in the noughties” and trails decades behind countries such as Denmark and Norway, new analysis shows. The most recent figures available for prostate, bowel, breast ...

The Liberal Democrats have pledged to spend £1 billion a year on repairing “crumbling” NHS hospitals if they come to power after the General Election. The party claimed millions of people would be ...

Sir Ian McKellen has said he is “looking forward to returning to work” as he thanked the NHS staff who cared for him after he fell from a West End stage earlier this week. The veteran stage and screen ...

The Interior Ministry said that it has counted 410,000 requests in the first week after President Emmanuel Macron’s election ...

Residents of the mountain village of Ruidoso in southern New Mexico fled their homes under evacuation orders with little time to rescue belongings as fast-moving wildfires bore down on the village of ...

Rishi Sunak hailed the return of the former prime minister, saying it will ‘make a difference’ in the run-up to polling day.

Labour’s lead over the SNP in Scotland has slipped from 10 points to four, a new poll suggests. The study carried out by YouGov spoke to 1,068 adults between June 3 and June 7, finding 34% of decided ...

Funding for bus services falls below the public’s priorities, a survey suggests. More than four out of 10 (42%) British adults want investment in the sector to be a top priority for the next ...