The current level of taxpayer funding for the Government-owned postal service was unsustainable, the Department for Business and Trade said.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves said the manifesto commitment not to increase income tax, national insurance and VAT still stood.

A woman is to be sentenced for the unlawful killing of another woman at a property in Church.

England were two wickets away from a classic victory over India at Lord’s, snatching four wickets on a dramatic final morning of the third Rothesay Test. Chasing 193 the tourists slipped to 112 for ...

Four people died in the plane crash at London Southend Airport on Sunday, the PA news agency understands. The crash, which happened shortly before 4pm, involved “one 12-metre plane”, Essex Police said ...

A BBC Gaza documentary breached an editorial guideline on accuracy, a report said. The programme, Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone, was removed from BBC iPlayer in February after it emerged that the ...

Patience was the watch word for Jack van Poortvliet and England as they completed a 2-0 series win over Argentina in the most dramatic fashion.

A condemned empty terraced house is to be bought by an East Lancashire local authority because the owner cannot afford to make it safe ...

Reform UK’s Blackburn branch held its inaugural public meeting last week which heard a promise to contest every ward in the town at the next ...

Plans to extend a Blackburn mosque and madrassah into the neighbouring shop have been recommended for approval despite neighbour objections ...

A national study has found that women in the UK are spending more time on domestic tasks, sleeping less than men and dealing with greater stress ...

Katie Wallis, the MP for Bridgend in South Wales from 2019 to 2024, became the first openly transgender MP in the House of Commons in 2022.