The demand has been made ahead of a meeting between the Prison Officers’ Association and Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood.

A Newcastle man has shed nearly 4.5 stone after joining a local, FA-accredited football programme. Luke Foster, 42, weighed almost 23 stone when he first joined MAN v FAT Newcastle in January 2023.

Michael Carrick will be telling his Middlesbrough players to keep a level head when they take on Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough.

A care home in Ashington has donated 32 Easter eggs to a cancer charity. Colleagues at HC-One’s Ashington Grange Care Home, Northumberland, collected the Easter eggs to donate to Daft as a Brush ...

Homeowners have been warned of a boiler noise to listen out for that could see a £300 repair bill if not dealt with ...

Moors were held to a 1-1 draw by Scarborough on Friday to leave them four points behind the play-off positions, with today’s game at the First Cloud Arena and a final match at home to Oxford on ...

Despite the declaration of an Easter ceasefire on Saturday, Ukrainian forces have recorded 59 instances of Russian shelling.

US airstrikes targeting Yemen’s capital killed 12 people and wounded 30 others, the Houthi rebels said early Monday. The deaths mark the latest in America’s intensified campaign of strikes targeting ...

He said Hamas has rejected Israel’s latest proposal to free half the hostages in return for another temporary truce.

BBC Radio 2 presenter Jo Whiley has said that her sister is the “best she’s ever been”, after being moved into a residential care home. The DJ, 59, has been vocal about her younger sister, Frances, ...

The Orkney Native Wildlife Project began removing stoats in 2019 and the latest survey, which covered 100 sites and recorded pairs of wading birds per square kilometre, showed a modest recovery since ...

Scottish Water staff will stage a two-day strike from midnight amid a continued dispute over pay. Workers will walk out on Tuesday and Wednesday following a one-day strike last month. Unison, which ...