The 34-year-old apologised for doing 44mph in a 30mph zone and said it may have been due to physical and mental fatigue.

Experts are calling for evidence on the health impact of plastics to be placed at the core of any UN treaty agreed at final talks in November.

The Co-operative Group has laid bare the rising impact of shoplifting as it said the cost of crime in its stores surged by nearly a fifth to £40 million in the first half of the year alone. The member ...

The Ukrainian president told the UN General Assembly there is no alternative to the ‘peace formula’ he presented two years ago.

Two environmental organisations have been granted permission for a legal challenge on the Rosebank and Jackdaw offshore oil and gas fields in the North Sea. Greenpeace UK and Uplift’s legal grounds ...

Zara Aleena’s murderer has refused to appear in court for a hearing over an alleged “inappropriate relationship” with a prison workshop instructor. Jordan McSweeney, 31, failed to appear via video ...

Vital upgrades to two key parts of Somerset’s flood defences won’t be carried out until the spring and summer of 2025.

The number of people who are classed as being economically inactive due to long-term sickness has risen in recent years. Here the PA news agency looks at what the latest employment statistics show ...

It came as the United Nations said more than 90,000 people have been displaced by five days of Israeli strikes on Lebanon.

Peter Stanley, from Dovecote, Liverpool, has been jailed for 20 months for posting on the internet videos of baby monkeys being tortured (Merseyside Police/PA) But the videos were spotted by an animal ...

David Brook’s shop just outside the centre of Leeds is one of the worst affected by shoplifting among the Co-op’s 2,400-strong chain.

Police are treating the theft of plaques linking to poems from “writers of global heritage” in the South Downs National Park as a racially motivated crime. Sussex Police say that a number of the ...