More than 1,000 requests are made in the first year of a scheme which allows people to be told if their partner has been violent in the past.

An increase in Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) which takes place on 1 October amounts to a "raid" on consumers, the industry says.

Europe win three of the afternoon fourballs matches to cut the United States' lead on the first day of the Ryder Cup.

Scottish boxer Mike Towell dies in hospital after being seriously injured in a bout on Thursday, his management says.

Police in the US city of San Diego release video footage of the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man outside a shopping centre on Tuesday.

Sickness benefits claimants will no longer have to go through reassessments to keep their payments if they suffer from chronic illnesses, Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green is to announce.

Unicef urges the UK government to speed up the transfer of unaccompanied child refugees to Britain from the "Jungle" camp in Calais

A man is arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving after four people were seriously injured when a car ploughed into a crowd on an industrial estate.