The gender pay gap for full-time employees has continued to decline in the UK. It was 6.8 % in April 2026, down from 7.2% in April 2025. This compares with 9.4% a decade ago and 16.4% 25 years ago.

Jamie Laing was mistaken for an actor from the teen drama One Tree Hill when he appeared in the audience of Dancing With The Stars this week. The former Made In Chelsea star, 37, is currently in Los ...

Aberdeen South MP Douglas Lumsden has urged the Energy Secretary to approve the Rosebank oil field after Jackdaw was given the green light. Miatta Fahnbulleh announced on Wednesday that the gas field, ...

Six-year-old Ivy Knighton-Leake, from Bradford, kicked off the 2026 launch in Manchester on Thursday morning, where she received a special poppy made from the metal of Second World War Spitfires, from ...

Friday’s meeting at Newbury has been abandoned due to a waterlogged track, while an inspection has already been called ahead of their high-profile meeting on Saturday.

The Government has hit back after Donald Trump’s lead negotiator on the Ukraine war described Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “humanitarian”. Steve Witkoff, the US special envoy, made the remark ...

The incidents are heightening concerns about female politicians’ safety and raising fears about security in a country where politicians are highly accessible to the public. Poli ...

A city in South Korea is trying to find a new way to free a huge dusky shark from a narrow canal. Workers in the port city of Busan had herded the shark, nicknamed Bukangi, out of the canal the day ...

A landmark exhibition featuring 300 glittering pieces will be staged at The King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace next year.

Some 9.6 of people aged 16 and over are estimated to have been the victim of domestic abuse in the year to March 2026.

It came as Simon Roberts warned ‘many households are finding things tough at the moment’ amid pressure on consumer budgets.

It comes after cyber security chiefs warned UK organisations that a ‘critical security issue’ had been discovered in programming language PHP.