The work will accelerate the development of hypersonic vehicles which travel faster than the speed of sound, John Healey said.

Conservative MP Sir Bernard Jenkin asked defence minister Al Carns why documents about the 1982 attack on the Sir Galahad were being withheld.

Families may no longer be able to access a girls-only education for their daughters due to the Government’s decision to apply VAT to private school fees, education leaders have warned. Donna Stevens, ...

Stormont’s former health minister Robin Swann has admitted that decisions he made during the Covid pandemic continue to “weigh heavily” upon him. Mr Swann also told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry that he did ...

Mr Swann told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry that he believed it would have been ‘unethical and unnecessary’ to deploy the orders based on age ...

An intelligent, capable and kind teenage girl was found dead in her home after experiencing what her family believe were unkind words and bullying messages on social media, an inquest has heard. Megan ...

New business openings across the UK hit their lowest rate in more than a decade last year, official figures show. Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows 316,000 new businesses were ...

Michelle Bramwell of Little Langdon had submitted re-sited plans for a commercial dog boarding and day care centre ...

The Welsh Government will create a deposit return scheme for Wales, after pulling out of a UK-wide approach which did not include glass bottles, it has announced. England, Wales, Scotland and Northern ...

A detective knew it was “very much a matter for his officers” when he learned that one member of staff was on shift for a series of baby collapses at the Countess of Chester Hospital, an inquiry has ...

The UK will “double down” on support for Ukraine, fuelling speculation that British-supplied missiles could be used by Kyiv’s forces to hit targets deep inside Russia. Joe Biden has allowed Ukraine to ...