Ofcom has launched investigations into 34 pornography sites for new age-check requirements under the UK’s Online Safety Act, the regulator said.

It raised concerns over the way Microsoft charges Amazon and Google to use its software, which it said is driving up costs.

Five-year-old Yusuf Mahmud Nazir died at Sheffield Children’s Hospital in November 2022, eight days after he was seen at Rotherham Hospital.

Some 898 people made the journey in 13 boats on Wednesday, bringing the total for 2025 so far to 25,436, Home Office figures show.

But, after Stokes’ stand-in Ollie Pope continued England’s 100 per cent record at the toss, the hosts did not make the most of the cloudy conditions and good carry. Josh Tongue, who took 11 wickets in ...

Josep Bofill Blanch was working as a vaccinator for NHS Grampian in north-east Scotland when he approached the woman in 2021.

A taxi driver who is believed to have received one of the longest sentences for the disorder that followed the Southport attack last summer has lost a bid to appeal against his prison term.

The cross-party group of MPs warned that some LGBT veterans facing financial crisis are ‘suffering from severe mental health issues’.

Singer Jess Glynne has criticised the White House for using her song from the viral Jet2holidays advert in a video promoting deportation. The singer, 35, whose hit song Hold My Hand features in the ...

Pope Leo XIV has decided to declare St John Henry Newman a “doctor” of the church, bestowing one of the Catholic Church’s ...

Nearly one in five adult prisons in England and Wales have had serious concerns raised about their performance, the highest number since the current system of inspections began. Some 22 jails – 18.5% ...

Kirsty Carless, 33, had shown no remorse for the fatal attack on Louis Price, 31, Judge Mr Justice Choudhury said as he sentenced her on Thursday.