Civil servants are calling for permission to work a four-day week, saying the move is “critical to attaining a good quality of life” and could help save the Government more than £21 million a year.

Saturday’s lottery jackpot will be an estimated £4 million after no players scooped the top prize in Wednesday’s draw. The winning Lotto numbers were 11, 12, 28, 29, 41 and 54, while the bonus number ...

Pension “megafunds” are set to be created to help unlock billions of pounds of investment in businesses and infrastructure. Rachel Reeves will use her first Mansion House speech as Chancellor to ...

The British Museum is to receive the highest-value gift in UK museum history as it acquires £1 billion worth of Chinese ceramics. Trustees of the Sir Percival David Foundation are to donate 1,700 ...

The president-elect selected Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence and nominated Matt Gaetz to serve as his ...

Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Connie Nielsen, Pedro Pascal and director Sir Ridley Scott walked the red carpet in London.

Euston Station in central London has deteriorated to the point where its marble columns are held together by bands because “it would fall off without them”, the rail minister has said.

The King has celebrated the UK’s film and television industry at a Buckingham Palace reception before a night out at the Gladiator II premiere. Charles welcomed directors, actors, TV presenters, stunt ...

The West Ham United vice chair told the House of Lords the Football Governance Bill risked ‘suffocating’ ambition in English football.

The daughter of former cricketer Lord Botham has batted away an “unnecessarily aggressive and accusatory attack” on her father over his failure to turn up at Westminster. Sarah Botham said it had ...

Labour’s Chris Webb described the growing trend of ‘formula foraging’ as low-income parents attempted to feed their children.

The wife of a man accused of a shooting spree on Skye told how he launched a frenzied knife attack which punctured both her lungs after confronting her about messages to another man, a court heard.