The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGO) has raised concerns about the authority’s complaints handling for the sixth year in a row. A total of 93 complaints about the council were referred ...

A “predatory sexual offender” who abused five underage girls, two of whom he raped, has had his jail sentence increased at the Court of Appeal. Ashley Darbyshire was imprisoned for 15 years in April ...

The BBC and Met Office have announced that they plan to join forces to deliver a trusted and accurate weather service for Brits.

Culture can help to “make sense of this increasingly dangerous, angry and uncertain world”, First Minister John Swinney will say in a speech on Thursday highlighting Scotland’s creative industries.

Sir James said that an “exceptional case” would be needed for it to go to the High Court, rather than the POAC. Mr Justice Chamberlain said on Wednesday that a High Court challenge could take place in ...

After giving Joe Murphy the finest hour in his long training career at Royal Ascot, Coronation Stakes heroine Cercene steps up in trip in search of further honours in the Qatar Nassau Stakes at ...

Ger Lyons has his sights on America – and possibly York before that – after Lady Iman made a successful Goodwood raid to ...

India captain Shubman Gill has branded the intervention of Surrey’s chief groundsman Lee Fortis “absolutely unnecessary” ahead of his side’s final Test against England.

The family of a woman who was found dead in a house in West Yorkshire have paid tribute to a “gorgeous daughter and sister” as the man accused of murdering her appeared in court for the first time.

Essex Police said 14 people have been charged in connection with protests at the site and there have been 23 arrests.

The state-owned forecaster lost the contract to provide weather forecasting services to the BBC to another provider, MeteoGroup, in 2016.

Alan King is taking comfort from the many messages of support he has received since the sad death of stable stalwart Trueshan in what he described as a “freak accident” at Goodwood on Tuesday.