General Sir Gwyn Jenkins has been named as the new head of the Royal Navy, the Ministry of Defence said, following the earlier than expected departure of his predecessor. Royal Marine Sir Gwyn ...

Pullman Car No 246 ‘Lydia’ was used during crucial wartime strategy meetings ahead of D-Day and later during Churchill’s state funeral in 1965.

The chair of the Royal College of GPs also told the BBC this week that doctors have “real concerns about the practical and legal implications of a change in the law on assisted dying”, which she said ...

The British endurance swimmer says ‘I’m frightened of sharks but I’m really frightened of a world without sharks’ ahead of his latest swim.

The US president had pressed for the Russian and Ukrainian leaders to meet in the Turkish capital on Thursday.

ITV is bracing for a double-digit plunge in advertising revenues after last year was boosted by the Euros football tournament, but said it does not expect its production arm to be hit by US President ...

Transport minister Mike Kane said the Government wants to ‘maximise the benefits of future flight technologies including flying taxis’.

The NHS waiting list for hospital treatment in England has risen for the first time in seven months. New figures show an estimated 7.42 million treatments were waiting to be carried out at the end of ...

The announcement comes in the same week that the number of people crossing the Channel in small boats passed 12,000 for the year.

The Gambling Commission said the firm did not appropriately engage with a customer who hit a daily deposit limit of £3,340 12 times in 14 days.

The banking giant is now set to become fully private almost 17 years after receiving a state bailout during the 2008 financial crisis.

Researchers believe climate change may cause the death of large trees and reduce the area’s ability to act as a carbon sink.