Gavin And Stacey star Ruth Jones is reprising her role as Vanessa “Nessa” Jenkins to read Radio 4’s Shipping Forecast as the programme celebrates its centenary on the BBC on New Year’s Day.

Reform UK’s Nigel Farage says he will spend the next couple of days weighing up possible action against Kemi Badenoch.

A 49-year-old man is to appear in court charged with two counts of murder after two women died following a suspected stabbing in Milton Keynes on Christmas Day. Jazwell Brown, of Santa Cruz Avenue, ...

A decades-long dispute over the ownership of the cannons included many twists, including concerns that they could be targetted by the ...

A brown bear in Kent receiving life-saving brain surgery and the “Hardest Geezer” running the entire length of Africa were among the most eye-catching uplifting moments of 2024. Here, the PA news ...

Irish officials were worried that a US decision to designate the Real IRA (RIRA) as a foreign terrorist organisation might help recruitment for the paramilitary group. Just years after the signing of ...

Details of a threat to poison English water supplies have emerged in newly unsealed documents from the Irish national archives.

Viral TikTokers known as the Spud Bros vowed to make jacket potatoes “sexy again” as the food became a global phenomenon in 2024.

Bukayo Saka is likely to be sidelined until at least March following surgery on his hamstring, Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has revealed. Arsenal moved back up to second in the Premier League table with ...

Tony Blair once suggested that nationalists in Northern Ireland could support England in the World Cup after Ireland was knocked out, according to reports on a 2002 meeting. The former prime minister ...

Thousands of motorists have been caught drug-driving at least four times, sparking calls for ministers to consider introducing rehabilitation courses for offenders. A total of 33,020 British drivers ...

A union leader has called for 2025 to be a “year of delivery” for workers after 14 years of “Tory chaos”. TUC general secretary Paul Nowak said in his new year message that working people desperately ...