Debutant Billy Vunipola scores a first-half hat-trick as England easily beat a South American select side in Uruguay.

Long-planned anti-sleaze reforms will go ahead, Nick Clegg insists after three peers and an MP were accused of agreeing to do parliamentary work for money.

The latest official data suggests a record 11 applications are being made for each apprenticeship vacancy in the UK

A lack of clinical trials aimed at younger breast cancer patients could be partly to blame for the drop in longer-term survival, experts believe.

Doctors at a European meeting of anaesthetists will call for global agreement on the criteria and length of time taken to diagnose death.

The coalition says it has achieved savings of £10bn in Whitehall spending in the past financial year, a quarter more than its target.

A judge is assaulted during a sentencing hearing at Ipswich Crown Court by a man who raced from the public gallery.

Residents are trying to trace the owners of a peacock they have named Kevin, that arrived in a Derbyshire village a year ago.