The UK plum industry has begun to pull out of a “decades-long decline” with a bumper crop reported this year, a grower has said. Plum production in the UK hit its peak in 1987 with 28,900 tonnes being ...

Storm Floris will batter parts of the UK on Monday with unseasonably strong winds, the Met Office has announced. A yellow warning for wind has been issued for northern parts of the country from 6am ...

Thousands of shows will take place across the capital in August as the Fringe Festival and Edinburgh International Festival get under way.

The boys, aged 16 and 17, who cannot be named for legal reasons, denied murdering father-of-one Kamran Aman in Barry last month.

UK manufacturers highlighted that willingness to spend was weak domestically and overseas due to concerns over economic uncertainty and higher labour costs. New export orders declined again as firms ...

Officers were called to reports of an armed robbery at Asda in Dewsbury at 9.20pm on Saturday. They arrested a man, who told officers about a woman who he believed to be dead inside a house on Norfolk ...

The Ukrainian capital Kyiv observed an official day of mourning on Friday, a day after a Russian drone and missile attack on the city killed 31 people, including five children, and injured more than ...

Sir Anthony Hopkins has channelled his Silence Of The Lambs character in a video of him wearing the new face wrap from Kim Kardashian’s shapewear brand. The film star, 87, posted a video to Instagram ...

British Airways’ parent company has described hotel tycoon Surinder Arora’s Heathrow expansion as “credible”. International Airlines Group (IAG) chief executive Luis Gallego said “competition is good ...

The Government is consulting on proposals it says will establish a fairer funding system for local government.

The company earned 23.4 billion dollars during its fiscal third quarter, a 9 increase from the same time last year.

The annual rate of house price growth accelerated to 2.4 on average in July, Nationwide Building Society said.