The South Basildon and East Thurrock MP said he had ‘decided to continue my parliamentary career as an independent MP’.

Flights scheduled at Marseille Airport have been suspended after a wildfire raged close to the southern French port city, ...

AFTER clinching promotion to the Southern League Premier South, Evesham United have secured their future in the form of a new contract for their manager.  Robins boss Mike Ford has signed a new ...

Gregg Wallace has been fired by the BBC following a nine-month investigation into claims of misconduct against him.

A public inquiry into the murders of three girls at a Southport dance class will identify changes that urgently need to be made to protect the most vulnerable from other “horrors”, the chairman has ...

A Scottish postmaster who was wrongly convicted under the Horizon scandal says Fujitsu is getting away “scot-free” from its role in the affair. Rab Thomson welcomed the first tranche of Sir Wyn ...

Hope of finding survivors of the catastrophic flooding in Texas dimmed a day after the death toll surpassed 100, and crews kept up the search for people missing in the aftermath. The search efforts ...

The black-tailed skimmer dragonfly was spotted by volunteers at the Bog Meadows Nature Reserve in west Belfast.