Imposing restrictions on smartphones in schools without involving young people in the process risks their use becoming like “smoking behind the bike shed”, a top paediatrician has warned. Baroness ...

A royal insider has ended his ‘omerta’ to lift the lid on confidential discussions of state he had at a rainy Battersea bus stop in 2020.

Lewis Hamilton fears Mercedes’ refusal to allow him to leave his contract prematurely will put him on the backfoot at Ferrari.

World number one Judd Trump dug in to see off John Higgins in a last-frame decider and book his place in the quarter-finals of the UK Championship, while Zhang Anda made a superb fightback to beat ...

Daniel Khalife’s audacious escape from HMP Wandsworth in 2023 revealed significant problems with the prison system. But when the 23-year-old’s trial for spying charges began in October, a running ...

Iga Swiatek has described being given a one-month ban as the “worst experience of my life” as the tennis world was stunned by another doping case involving one of its most high-profile players. The ...

An investigation is underway after a woman was found dead by emergency services. Police were called to Breightmet just after 1pm and remained on the scene into the afternoon. Officers say they were ...

Hundreds of National Education Union teacher members in 32 sixth form colleges in England began walkouts on Thursday.

Sir Rod Stewart has sensationally attacked Gregg Wallace after it was reported the presenter would be stepping down from his role on MasterChef. Posting on his Instagram account, Stewart said: "So ...

Three Bulgarian nationals were allegedly part of a group which carried out surveillance on opponents of the Russian state, the Old Bailey heard.

Tommy McQuaker, 29, took part in a ‘siege’ on a hotel housing asylum seekers in Tamworth in the wake of the Southport stabbings.

Adam Peaty has a nagging feeling of unfinished Olympic business but is unsure about climbing the “Mount Everest” needed to challenge in Los Angeles. Peaty will turn 30 next month and is currently ...