An Olympic champion warned the UK has an “inactivity crisis” as he picked up an honour from Buckingham Palace for his work promoting cycling and walking across the country. Former professional cyclist ...

London 2012 rowing gold medallist Dame Katherine Grainger has been elected chair of the British Olympic Association (BOA). The 49-year-old, who is also a four-time Olympic silver medallist, becomes ...

Yvette Cooper made the “world-first security” agreement with Federal Government of Iraq interior minister Abdulameer Al-Shimmeri during a three-day visit to Baghdad and Erbil this week, the Home ...

Already a devoted ambassador to the grassroots game, the ex-international sought to continue his love affair with non-league football by visiting Shefford Sports Ground, home of Shefford Town and ...

Paul Dunleavy, 89, is already serving time in prison having been previously convicted on two separate occasions of sexual offences against children.

The collapse follows several years of declining sales, mounting debts and even a break-in at its Wirral factory last year.

The musician, whose real name is Tyron Frampton, is accused of raping the woman at a house party following a performance in Oxford.

Royal Wootton Bassett is kicking off the Christmas festivities with a lights switch-on - here are all the details you need to know.

The Scottish Government said it will ‘continue to protect our pensioners from the harsh reality of a UK Labour Government’.

Nearly 25 million people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, according to development minister Anneliese Dodds.

Lawyers for eight Syrians claim that Qatar and its agents ‘derailed’ a multimillion-pound legal case in London.

Tamzin Ellen Hall, from Wellington, Somerset, was being taken into custody when officers pulled over and she escaped from the police car.