Flood alerts and warnings have been issued across Cumbria today after harsh weather battered the nation. A yellow weather warning for wind was in place for much of the county yesterday (December 31), ...

A 40-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving after a hit-and-run incident in which two New Year revellers were injured. Metropolitan Police officers were called to the ...

Northern Scotland is expected to be hit with snow on New Year’s Day, as organisers of the cancelled Hogmanay event in Edinburgh branded this week “challenging”. The Met Office’s yellow warning that ...

A total of 36,816 people were detected crossing the Channel in small boats during 2024, according to provisional figures from ...

A 32-year-old man was arrested after one officer died and another was seriously injured in the incident in the South Island city of Nelson.

A software engineer has completed his year-long challenge of doing 300 press-ups every day in memory of his mother who had multiple sclerosis (MS), raising more than £10,000 for charity.

The last crossings of the year took place on December 29, when 291 people made the journey from France in six boats.

Harry Chandler, a US Navy medic who helped pull injured sailors from the oily waters of Pearl Harbour after Japan’s attack on the naval base in 1941, has died at the age of 103. He died at a senior ...

Only two of the 181 people on board the Boeing 737-800 operated by Jeju Air survived when it crashed at Muan International ...

Seven people were killed when a strike hit a home in the Jabaliya area, and a woman and child died when another hit the ...

The year is set to see bands reunite, music titans releasing new music and major artists being taken to court.