Football clubs should contribute more to the £70 million cost of policing their matches, the head of the Metropolitan Police said. Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley called for a “polluter pays approach” ...

A breakaway party to the left of Labour should be known as the “Farage assistance group”, former Labour leader Lord Neil Kinnock has said. Lord Kinnock told Sky News’s Sunday Morning With Trevor ...

Labour policies are “barely being noticed” and have been “obscured” by rows over welfare and winter fuel, former leader Lord Kinnock has said. Lord Kinnock – who led the party from 1983 to 1992 – told ...

At least 33 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed in Israeli air strikes, hospital officials said, as Israel’s military said it had struck more than 100 targets in the embattled enclave in the past ...

Ministers “pushed ahead too fast” and “didn’t listen enough” on welfare reform, the Education Secretary has said. Bridget Phillipson also said that future spending decisions had been made “harder”, ...

Three works created by Northern Ireland theatre, dance and arts organisations will be spotlighted as part of an event at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer. The Spotlight On Theatre And Dance ...

POLITICIANS responsible for scrutinising whether public funds are being used efficiently have called for the government to carry out a “lessons learned” exercise in the wake of the failed joint ferry ...

The Dalai Lama turned 90 on Sunday, surrounded by thousands of followers. Worshippers thronged the Himalayan town of Dharamshala, where the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism has been living in ...

Rescuers were continuing to scour a devastated central Texas landscape of mangled trees, overturned cars and muck-filled debris in an increasingly bleak mission to locate survivors. The flooding in ...

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says Islamic and right-wing extremism remain Britain’s “biggest threats” ahead of the 20th anniversary of the July 7 bombings. On July 7 2005, four suicide bombers ...

Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has called for the creation of 12-15 mega forces as part of what he described as “the first serious reform of our policing model in over 60 years”.

REVISED plans to turn part of the former Nude Dunes restaurant into self-catering holiday accommodation has not received the backing of the Planning Committee – despite arguments that the new ...