Storm Barra has left at least 59,000 people without power in Ireland - and is now battering the UK with 80mph winds, rain and snow.

A woman escaped from her car after it apparently skidded on ice at a level crossing and was then hit by a train.

Warnings about murdered six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes were ignored, his grandfather has said.

The COVID pandemic has hit children in the north of England the hardest, with health and educational outcomes worse than youngsters elsewhere, a new…

People who incite hostility on the basis of sex or gender should be prosecuted for hate crimes, the Law Commission says.

All new prisons will have "airport-style" security and every inmate will be assessed for addiction under plans to keep drugs out of jails.

A multi-million pound strategy to cut drug crime and save lives has been unveiled by the government – but will it work?

Adults in the UK are being urged to take up the COVID-19 booster vaccine as part of efforts to tackle the spread of the new Omicron variant.

A lot can happen in 10 days, but for homes across the north without power far too little has happened.

The Omicron variant of COVID-19 is already causing up to 1,000 infections a day in the UK, many more than official figures would suggest, a leading…

The Manchester Arena bomber swore at school teachers, stole a mobile phone from a prefect and skipped class, his former headteacher has revealed.

A pedestrian who knifed a motorist to death in front of his four-year-old son faces life behind bars after being convicted of murder.

Another 90 cases of the new Omicron COVID variant have been reported in the UK, taking the total to 336.

This week, the Nationality and Borders Bill returns to the Commons for two days of scrutiny.

The mother of two sisters murdered in Wembley has said the officers who took photos of their bodies are "more sorry they got caught" after they were…