Labour MP Josh MacAlister’s Bill would call for a legal requirement to be introduced so all schools in England are mobile-free zones.

The state pension increases in line with whichever is the highest of earnings growth, CPI inflation in September of the previous year, or 2.5 ...

Sir Jonathan Michael is investigating how the bodies of people who have died are looked after around the country.

Months of drought in southern Africa triggered by the El Nino weather phenomenon have had a devastating effect on more than 27 million people and caused the region’s worst hunger crisis in decades, ...

The Health Secretary told the Commons he intends to go into the next general election with a record the Tories ‘could only dream of’.

A murder investigation has been launched after a man in his 40s died in a shooting in Tottenham, police said. Officers were called to Waltheof Gardens, N17, at 9am on Tuesday following reports of a ...

Exeter lock Dafydd Jenkins will miss Wales’ autumn internationals as he recovers from knee and shoulder operations. The 21-year-old, Wales captain throughout the Six Nations earlier this year, has ...

Emma Pinchbeck, who has been appointed as the new chief executive of the independent advisory Climate Change Committee but was speaking in her current role as head of industry body Energy UK, said the ...

A DJ who confessed to rape on a YouTube video before attempting to launch a career as a “forgiveness” guru has been jailed for six years. Craig Strachan, 33, denied his crime during a trial at the ...

Downing Street has rejected suggestions that Sir Keir Starmer received Taylor Swift tickets as a “thank you” after she was given taxpayer-funded police security while performing in London.

Wheelchair rugby prospect Josh Tudge is determined to honour the memory of his former coach by following the path he once tread to reach ...

Ireland’s deputy premier has said that an opinion from the UN’s top court “changes the context” around the Occupied Territories Bill. The government said previously that legal advice from Attorneys ...