Award-winning children’s author Sarah Webb believes it has never been more important to find books for children.

An additional £700 million provision taken in the final three months of the year adds to the £450 million already confirmed last year.

Two women died in a knife attack at a shopping centre in the Czech Republic, officials have said. Police said they detained a teenage suspect in connection with the stabbings in a store in the city of ...

The man suspected to have shot dead a woman outside a Kent pub on Valentine’s Day has died after falling into the Thames, police have confirmed. Lisa Smith, 43, from Slough, was killed in Knockholt ...

An average of 1,160 hospital beds were filled each day last week by patients with norovirus-like symptoms, according to data from NHS England.

A law passed last year by the Scottish Parliament outlawed activists from protesting within 200 metres of abortion clinics.

High street retailer Quiz has closed 23 stores after tumbling into insolvency. It comes after the fashion chain was hit by a downturn in consumer demand, with disappointing sales over the key ...

Profits at recruitment giant Hays more than halved in the latter period of last year, as companies across the UK and Europe put the brakes on hiring. The London-based company blamed “considerable ...

Culture minister Lisa Nandy said that it was ‘essential that we get this right’ following a call for the broadcaster to pull the film.

Hundreds of people in England with aggressive blood cancer are set to benefit from an innovative new treatment that reprogrammes a patient’s own immune cells to fight the disease after it was ...