The Home Office has confirmed the returns pilot with France is "no longer processing new cases". Around 1,500 people were sent back at a reported cost of £56,000 each, as ministers point to a fall of ...

THE four-legged heroes who serve alongside Britain’s Armed Forces have been given a state-of-the-art new home, complete with specialist veterinary care, rehabilitation facilities and purpose-built ...

BRITISH scientists and engineers are set to play a leading role in an ambitious NASA mission designed to peer into some of the most mysterious reaches of the Universe. UK researchers are part of the ...

North Yorkshire Council staff who handle anti-terror work were taught that the Virgin Mary "wore a hijab", in a training programme on Islamophobia that the state has helped to pay for.

The Environment Secretary says the public, not shareholders, should decide where billions of pounds of water investment goes. Ministers will ask Parliament to repeal Margaret Thatcher's restrictions ...

The Afghanistan inquiry has cost the taxpayer £58m and has run for more than three and a half years without publishing a finding. As it drags on, the association representing more than 5,000 serving ...

BRITAIN entered October with another deeply uncomfortable warning about the state of the economy as long-term Government borrowing costs surged through 6 per cent for the first time since 1998. As ...

HUNDREDS of prisoners are being released early across England and Wales today as Labour’s controversial new sentencing regime comes into force, with domestic abusers, stalkers and violent offenders ...

Andy Burnham has used his first Labour conference speech as Prime Minister to reopen the question of Britain’s relationship with the European Union while unveiling plans to change the voting system, ...

Labour’s flagship “one in, one out” migrant deal with France has been brought to an end little more than a year after it came into force, after failing to operate on anything like the scale ministers ...

Vickrum Digwa murdered the Southampton student and then told police his dying victim had racially abused him. On 5 November the Court of Appeal will decide whether his sentence was too long, while the ...

Households face another punishing winter of rising energy costs, with the typical annual bill now forecast to approach £2,000 in January, as renewed turmoil on international energy markets exposes ...