The National Lottery operator’s pledge spend £38 billion on good causes by 2034 “looks fanciful”, a viscount has warned. Viscount Chandos asked gambling minister Baroness Twycross to say whether the ...

Ireland’s premier and justice minister have praised the “extremely fast” policing response to a knife attack in a Dublin neighbourhood in which three men were injured. A man was arrested at the scene ...

The family of an Omagh bombing victim desperately searched for the missing schoolgirl in the aftermath of the massacre, a public inquiry has heard. The Omagh Bombing Inquiry heard that 15-year-old ...

Welsh dancer Amy Dowden has said it would be “too dangerous now” to consider having children, after doctors found “no evidence” of cancer following tests last year. The Strictly Come Dancing ...

Armed police have been called out to a stand-off in a flat above a bank in south-east London. Pictures were posted on social media of a man in a dressing gown brandishing a knife out of the window of ...

Lewisham High Street remained closed off on Monday afternoon, and armed police could be seen on standby near the scene. The incident unfolded metres away from Lewisham police station. The Metropolitan ...

A woman local to Villefranche-de-Rouergue said Andrew Searle and Dawn Kerr were ‘exceptional people’ who were ‘loved’ in the town.

Former health minister Andrew Gwynne was sacked over the weekend and Burnley MP Oliver Ryan is under investigation.

UNAids executive director Winnie Byanyima warned that the move makes no economic sense, and could mean a new surge in the disease.

This would result in lower demand – and a drop in prices – over the peak summer period, a major travel agent said.