The Home Office plans to spend about £2.2 billion of foreign aid to support asylum seekers this financial year, according to new figures..

Thunderstorm warning issued as parts of England and Wales face weekend deluge.

The NHS is expected to receive a funding boost of up to £30 billion in the spending review next week at the expense of other public services..

More than 1,200 Scots have applied for payments from a compensation scheme set up to help members of the military impacted by a ban on LGBT personnel serving in the forces..

Holidaymakers have been warned of the potential for strike action at Glasgow Airport over the summer as more than 800 workers from five companies are involved in pay disputes..

Well Lords Prayer better recognised than national anthem, Churchill or Shakespeare.

Rayner faces Labour backbench call to smash existing housebuilding model.

David Lammy will seek to deepen UK-India economic ties as he visits New Delhi this weekend, saying Britains recently agreed trade deal with the country is just the start of our ambitions..

The body of a man has been discovered in the search for teenager Cole Cooper who vanished more than four weeks ago..

Tottenham sack Ange Postecoglou weeks after Europa League success.

A BBC Bargain Hunt art expert who failed to report a series of high-value art sales to a man suspected of financing militant group Hezbollah has been jailed for two-and-a-half years..

Kemi Badenoch has insisted that the Conservatives are still the main opposition to Labour despite her party slumping to fourth in a Holyrood by-election this week..

A huge demonstration will be held on Saturday to send a message to the Government over spending cuts and welfare reform..

Badenoch increasingly supportive of leaving ECHR, as she launches exit probe.

Hundreds of thousands fewer patients will face long AandE waits, the Government has pledged, as it also set out plans to try and end corridor care..

The SNP were second with Reform UK in third.

Six water companies banned from paying bonuses to senior bosses.

Bin workers in Birmingham vote to continue strikes over pay and jobs.

The chairman of Reform UK has quit, saying working to get the party elected was no longer a good use of my time..

Two teenagers have been sentenced for killing an 80-year-old dog walker who was racially abused, punched, kicked, and slapped in the face with a shoe while on his knees in a brutal park attack..

A brother and sister who were reunited with their primary school photo after it ended up in a charity shop more than 300 miles away said their story shows the power of social media..

Ministers are being urged to fulfil their ethical and moral obligation to provide pensions for police dogs when the animals retire..

The winner of an annual cheese rolling race in Gloucestershire has donated her prize to a food charity in London..

Rangers have confirmed the appointment of Russell Martin as the clubs new head coach..

The number of people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) probably isnt increasing that much, researchers have suggested, despite a marked uptick in people seeking assessment for the condition..

An Edinburgh arthouse cinema is set to reopen its doors later this month after a three-year campaign involving A-list stars saw it pulled back fae the brink of closure..

Britain must address soaring energy tariffs as firms struggle under the weight of crippling power bills on top of tax and wage hikes costing them an extra £24 billion a year, the boss of the CBI is set to warn..

Voting opens at 7am.

Staines-upon-Thames Day Sunday 29th June

A man allegedly murdered a 14-year-old boy with a Samurai sword in a brutal string of attacks that were indiscriminate, a court has heard..

Singer Beyonce is to bring her Cowboy Carter Tour to London for six performances at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium..

WH Smith has said it remains track to complete the sale of its UK high street chain to Hobbycraft owner Modella Capital at the end of the month..

In Scotlands latest by-election, its SNP vs Labour vs Reform UK.

Rachel Reeves acknowledged she had been forced to reject calls for funding for good projects as she refused to loosen the rules governing her stewardship of the public finances..

More pensioners will receive the winter fuel allowance this winter but payments will not be universal, the Government has said..

Searches for Madeleine McCann are to resume in Portugal, near where the little girl was last seen in 2007..