Yellow rain warnings have been issued by the Met Office covering much of the Midlands and northern England on Tuesday.

Prisons minister Lord James Timpson said violence and illicit drug use at HMP Rochester were at ‘dangerously high levels’.

The UK’s top civil servant Simon Case has announced he will step down at the end of the year on health grounds. Cabinet Secretary Mr Case, who has been undergoing treatment for a neurological ...

Police are appealing for the public’s help to find a missing teenager who could have travelled to Weston-super-Mare.