Official data suggests the UK’s rate of inflation eased from 3.5% in April to 3.4% in May – but in reality the figure was unchanged, standing at 3.4% in both months. The discrepancy is to do with an ...

Israeli warplanes have pounded Iran’s capital overnight, hitting a facility used to make uranium centrifuges and another that ...

Kevin Draper, 55, is on trial accused of murdering 27-year-old Jack O’Brien, who had come into his home in Siddow Common, Leigh, on December 3 last year by stabbing him seven times.

The UK has a 50:50 chance of seeing temperatures soar to 40C again in the next 12 years, as the risk of extreme heat rises with climate change, the Met Office said. The meteorological experts also ...