The number of people killed off the UK coastline in 2015 is the highest since records were first collected in 2011, the RNLI says.

Nihonium, moscovium, tennessine, and oganesson are the names proposed for the four new chemical elements added to the periodic table in January.

The government is failing to do enough to protect communities at risk of flooding and needs to do more long-term planning, MPs say.

Health inspectors rate a hospital 'inadequate' because of its 'chaotic' emergency department

Friends of an Eritrean man extradited to Italy on Tuesday on people smuggling charges say police have arrested the wrong man.

JCB chairman Lord Bamford writes to his workers in the UK to explain why he favours leaving the EU.

Chartered surveyors are predicting a short-term drop in UK house prices over the next three months, the first fall in more than six years

The Police Ombudsman is to give his verdict on allegations of collusion between police and a loyalist gang that killed six Catholics in Loughinisland 22 years ago.